From ENS-The hearing panel considering disciplinary action against Diocese of Los Angeles Bishop J. Jon Bruno has drafted an order calling for his suspension from ordained ministry for three years because of misconduct.
The five-member panel concluded in a 4-1 decision that “the scope and severity of Bishop Bruno’s misconduct … have unjustly and unnecessarily disturbed the ministry of a mission of the Church.”
The 91-page draft order specifically rejects calls for Bruno to be deposed, or removed, from ordained ministry. It says that during the three-year suspension Bruno could not exercise any authority over “the real or personal property or temporal affairs of the Church.” A three-year suspension would take Bruno beyond his mandatory retirement date in November 2018, when he turns 72.
The draft order, which is not final, also urges the diocese to let the members of St. James the Great return to their Newport Beach, California, building.
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http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2017/07/24/draft-order-calls-for-bruno-to-be-suspended-from-ministry-for-three-years/
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