From ENS-Members of the dioceses of Chicago and Quincy unanimously agreed June 8 to reunify, something that no other dioceses have done in the Episcopal Church for 70 years.
Both dioceses, meeting separately, approved the same reunification resolution.
“This is a day that both dioceses have yearned for,” Diocese of Chicago Bishop Jeffrey D. Lee, who will be bishop of the reunified diocese, said in a press release issued after both dioceses acted. “Now the people of Chicago and the people of Quincy will join together in witnessing to the power of the Risen Christ who overcomes all divisions.”
Quincy Provisional Bishop John Buchanan added that “the faithful people of Quincy have shown us all what it means to live as witnesses to God’s mission in the Episcopal Church.”
“Their unflagging commitment to our common life will make them invaluable leaders in the Diocese of Chicago,” he said in the same release.
“The mood here is jubilant following the vote,” according to a tweet from Quincy’s Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Peoria after that diocese’s vote. “It’s a family reunion that’s been a long time in the making.”
More here-
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2013/06/08/dioceses-of-chicago-quincy-unanimously-agree-to-reunite/
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