From The Pittsburgh Poast-Gazette-The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh and nine breakaway Anglican parishes have settled a nearly decade-old legal dispute that will enable the congregations to continue using their properties while paying annual fees to the diocese, which will retain a limited say in the future of the properties.
The agreement, announced Wednesday, resulted from intensive mediation that began last fall, resolving most of the remaining legal issues that had festered ever since Pittsburgh became the epicenter of a continent-wide denominational schism in 2008.
That year, a majority of parishes left the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh — opposing liberal trends in the Episcopal Church on homosexuality and theology. They incorporated a diocese of the same name under the newly formed conservative Anglican Church in North America, an Ambridge-based denomination.
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http://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2018/02/28/Anglican-parishes-Episcopal-diocese-settle-property-dispute/stories/201802280193
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