From ENS-Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has taken the next step in a never-before-used canonical process contesting the election of the Very Rev. Kerwin Delicat as bishop coadjutor for the Diocese of Haiti.
Curry on July 17 officially asked the Province II Court of Review to convene as a fact-finding commission and prepare a report on allegations of what a group of Haitian Episcopalians called an “electoral coup d’état.” The group represents more than 20 percent of the clergy and lay electors of the June 2 convention that chose Delicat, dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The 16 priests and 26 lay people say that Bishop Diocesan Jean Zaché Duracin and his supporters:
- Violated a covenant that was agreed to just more than a year ago by Curry, Duracin, Haiti Bishop Suffragan Ogé Beauvoir and the diocesan Standing Committee to “address and resolve many of the issues of conflict that have been burdening the diocese.”
- Manipulated ordinations to influence the election results.
- Developed an illegitimate slate of candidates by eliminating those who did not support the bishop.
- Violated election canons and the diocese’s bylaws governing elections.
- Planned and implemented obstacles to voting that amounted to fraud.
https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/article/provincial-fact-finding-group-looking-claims-episcopal-election-fraud-diocese-haiti
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