Schori’s memo planning Duncan deposition

Posted on September 14, 2008 
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TEC Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in Jerusalem. (Photo: Episcopal Life Online / Richard Schori.)Greg Griffith, at Stand Firm, has published a memo allegedly by TEC Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, detailing her plans to depose Pittsburgh bishop Bob Duncan. …

September 12, 2008

Memorandum to the House of Bishops
Subject: Bishop of Pittsburgh

Sisters and Brothers:

As has been widely reported, at the forthcoming business meeting of the House in Salt Lake City on September 18, I shall present to the House the matter of the certification to me by the Title IV Review Committee that Bishop Robert W. Duncan has abandoned the Communion of this Church within the meaning of Canon IV.9. In this memorandum, I layout the background of this matter and what I see as the procedural and substantive issues that are raised by it. …

Read it all – and a related memo from the Task Force on Property Disputes (PDF file – direct link).

(Photo: Episcopal Life Online / Richard Schori.)