‘Buddhist Bishop’ rejected by TEC: CEN 7.31.09 p 5. July 31, 2009
Posted by geoconger in Church of England Newspaper, Northern Michigan.trackback
| The election of America’s ‘Buddhist bishop’ has been vetoed by the bishops and diocesan standing committees of the Episcopal Church.
The February 21 election of Dr. Kevin Thew Forrester as Bishop of Northern Michigan was “null and void,” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori announced on July 27, as he had not received the necessary “consents” from a majority of the church’s diocesan bishops and standing committees. Dr. Forrester’s rejection marks the first time in 77 years that the election of an American diocesan bishop has been repudiated by the Episcopal Church. In 1932, the election of the Dean of Arkansas as bishop of that southern diocese was rejected after protests were lodged that the diocese’s black clergy and lay delegates to the electoral synod had been disenfranchised. Under the American church’s canons, a newly elected bishop must receive the “consent” or approval of his election from a majority of diocesan bishops and standing committees within 120 days from the day after notice of his election. According to a tally kept by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Dr. Forester received consents from only 35 standing committees, while 65 refused to give their consent—-11 dioceses did not respond to the newspaper’s request to reveal how they had voted. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper’s Religious Intelligence section. |
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Well, I guess it’s good news that Bishop Schori still holds some ‘remnants’ of the Christian faith… after all, Buddhists don’t acknowledge God or any ‘god’.