According to "The Lead" at the Episcopal Café the Diocese of Quincy voted to leave the Episcopal Church and was welcomed into the Diocese of the Southern Cone. A link to the resolution may be found at their site.
And here's the big surprise! The portion of the Diocese of Pittsburgh that voted to leave the Episcopal Church elected Robert Duncan as their bishop.
And the pièce de résistance!
The entire diocese [Quincy] was invited to a party in Argentina this evening to celebrate the anniversary of Archbishop Venable's enthronement.
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ReplyDelete...the People of the Diocese of Quincy voted to leave the Episcopal Church....
Which means one thing JOB OPENING! Who wants it?
Well, Bishop Clumber, the clergy voted themselves out, too.
ReplyDeleteBut you are correct. There is a job opening. Tell me who wants it. You have a job already. +Maya Pavlova? +Rowan?
Me
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter if the priests, the bishop, all the lay people, and the church mice voted. The Diocese of Quincy didn't leave.
ReplyDeleteWell, JaneR was just back in that neck of the woods. Do you think maybe +maya went for a job interview... I think +rowan is more of a flying bishop, going where he's needed. Perhaps there's an opening in our clerical ranks.
+Clumber, I did not say that the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy left. The group that left calls itself the Diocese of Quincy on their website. The Episcopal Diocese of Quincy is still there, where it has been. The other group can call themselves whatever they like.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think about Fr Heron? Or would he do better as a flying bishop?
Are you SURE you want to live in Quincy? Corn and soybeans, corn and soybeans, corn and soybeans, corn and soybeans...pig farm. Ooops, my old Chicago roots and their geographical prejudice is showing. My bad.
ReplyDeleteRenz, I am most surely not applying for the job.
ReplyDeleteI once met Bishop Ackerman at Walsingham. He asked my permission for his travelling Choir to sing in the Holy House. He thought I was the Administrator of the Shrine. I gave him permission, and didn't disabuse him of his mistake. I like being mistaken for someone who is supposed to be holy.
ReplyDeleteRenz is right about Quincy.
ReplyDeleteIf you love corn and soybeans, then it's paradise.
Father David, now that was naughty.
ReplyDeleteI don't like being landlocked. I like living near a coast, so Quincy wouldn't work for me.
Since I'm a real fast runner I really should be left free to go where I'm most needed. Plus, don't forget, I am the Bishop of Playing. This job sounds way too serious for me. But, my sister bishop +maya would be a good fit, and a wise and gentle shepherd.
ReplyDeleteMy human canon wasn't surprised by this news though I never cease to be amazed by the humans.
Your friend,
+rowan
Bishop of Playing
What I don't understand is, how can these people leave the Episcopal Church and still call themselves "the Episcopal Diocese of N"?
ReplyDeleteOrmonde, they now call themselves the Diocese of Quincy. The description of the diocese on their website is carefully worded:
ReplyDeleteThe Diocese of Quincy is within the Province of TEC and lives its faith as a member of the Anglican Communion.
Mimi, I must have been thinking of Pittsburgh, which does describe itself that way on its website: http://www.pitanglican.org/.
ReplyDeleteWhat does one have to do; how does one have to act, to be mistaken for the Administrator of the Shrine at Walsingham?
ReplyDeleteA question best left unanswered?
Lapinbiarre: You have to have a funny walk
ReplyDeleteI hereby nominate Sancho. As long as he can be convinced to leave San Francisco, that is.
ReplyDeleteTobias, does Sancho have a funny walk? I don't know. Leave San Francisco to go to Quincy? I don't see that happening.
ReplyDeleteSancho has one of those Chihuahua walks -- you know, the kind where they are so perky and happy it's as if they've forgotten how to walk, and list from side to side and then scurry to catch their balance. I don't know, but that sounds like bishop material to me!
ReplyDeleteBut your're right about SF being hard to leave, for the relatively taco-free plains of Peoria.
Speaking of Peoria, doesn't that sound (as does Quincy) like some kind of Victorian Skin Disease?
I know, I'm bad. Off to watch Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd..."
Tobias, you are bad, and you come over here to be bad, and I love it. Wickedness abounds!
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous about Johnny Depp. There's just something about him....
Johnny Depp is yummy.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, the diocese's entire population could probably fit on one charter plane to Buenos Aires.
ReplyDeleteWell then, Paul (A), maybe they went to the party in Argentina after all.
ReplyDeleteWell, Johnny Depp was his usual fine self, even if he looked like he was suffering from a Victorian Skin Disease (such as Peoria -- which I think is Latin for "Can't get any worse.")
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Sweeney Todd The Movie is more graphically gruesome than I was expecting, even from Tim Burton. Even though there was a fantastic edge to things, it was not the gentle fantasy of Bettlejuice or Edward Scissorhands, but the Grande Guignol of spurting arteries, blunt trauma, etc., etc. I won't go into further details for the sakes of all who plan to see the film as well as those who don't!
Tobias, I believe that with your review and what I've heard from others, I'm in the category of "those who don't!" plan to see the film. Spurting arteries are truly not my thing.
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