From The Washington Post-The Virginia Supreme Court ruled for the Episcopal Church on Thursday in a bitter, multimillion-dollar property dispute with a conservative congregation that had left the denomination amid controversies over homosexuality and other issues.
The panel affirmed a lower court’s decision that the 3,000-member congregation, which voted in 2006 to leave the Episcopal Church, did not have the right to keep the sprawling property known as the Falls Church.
The Falls Church property is one of the country’s largest Episcopal churches and is a central landmark in downtown Falls Church.
The breakaway congregation, now called the Falls Church Anglican, has been worshiping in the Bishop O’Connell High School auditorium in Arlington County while it sought to overturn the Fairfax County Circuit Court decision from last year.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court affirmed that the property was rightly given to the mainline denomination but said some of the nearly $3 million in church coffers belongs to the Falls Church Anglican congregation.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2013/04/18/51b9cc04-a82e-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_story.html
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