Property belongs to Episcopal Church

From Tennessee-

On the Aug. 23 editorial page of The Tennessean appeared an op-ed entitled “Church could lose property” by the Rev. James M. Guill.

Father Guill correctly stated his parish church, St. Andrew’s, may lose the right to occupy 5 acres of land on Woodmont Boulevard in Nashville and that St. Andrew’s purchased the property from the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. However, he makes misrepresentations when he accuses the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Tennessee of “confiscating” the property owned by St. Andrew’s Church, and when he states “St. Andrew’s also chose to have a relationship with the diocese. Because it is an Anglo-Catholic church, though, the relationship was never intended to be the same as other Episcopal churches.”

On Dec. 2, 1957, the property was sold by Helen Picksley Cheek to the Church of the Advent (an Episcopal church). In 1960, the Church of the Advent transferred legal title to the property to the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. On April 26, 1966, a nonprofit corporation named “The Rector, Wardens, and Vestrymen of St. Andrew’s Parish” was formed. This is Father Guill’s St. Andrew’s Church.

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http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120830/OPINION03/308300021/Property-belongs-Episcopal-Church