Va. Episcopalians Enlist Ex-Archbishop's Services (re. gay bishop vote)

[DeepModem Mom]

Va. Episcopalians Enlist Ex-Archbishop's Services

By Leef Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 16, 2004; Page B01


The former archbishop of Canterbury stepped in yesterday to preside over the confirmation of more than 300 Virginia Episcopalians whose parishes did not want them to be confirmed by their own bishop after his vote last year to appoint the denomination's first openly gay bishop.

In two evening ceremonies at Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax City, the Rev. George L. Carey, who retired nearly two years ago as the 103rd archbishop of Canterbury, laid hands on hundreds of adults and children from 10 Northern Virginia parishes, confirming them as Christians and members of the Episcopal Church.

The confirmations would have been performed by the Rev. Peter James Lee, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. Lee said he invited Carey to come to Truro yesterday, at the end of a three-week tour of the United States, in an effort to accommodate those in the diocese who disagree with him.

Last year's election of a gay priest, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire created deep divisions in the Anglican Communion, which includes the Episcopal Church, and in the Virginia diocese, the country's largest with more than 195 churches from Fairfax to Richmond....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24850-2004Sep15.html

[WildClarySage]

1. Who would Jesus

hate? *sigh*