Statement at the Election of the Bishop of Nevada to be the 26th Presiding Bishop

[Mysterium_Fidei]

The implications for the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion speak for themselves, says Bishop Duncan.

http://www.acn-us.org/archive/2006/06/statement-at-the-election-of-the-bishop-of-nevada-to-be-the-26th-presiding-bishop.html

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[TomUK]

The implications for the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion speak for themselves, says Bishop Duncan.

http://www.acn-us.org/archive/2006/06/statement-at-the-election-of-the-bishop-of-nevada-to-be-the-26th-presiding-bishop.html

We couldn't you have elected that guy instead? :sigh:

[pmcleanj]

We couldn't you have elected that guy instead? :sigh:
They probably could have -- if a majority had voted for him.

If we don't like the canons that ECUSA has in place for determining their presiding bishop, we could have objected to them earlier. In fact, people have been objecting to ideas like broadly elected administrations for a couple of centuries, but the idea has been gaining ground rather than losing it.