We're staying says Quincy's Cathedral

The members of St. Paul's Cathedral, Peoria, Ill., in the schismatic Diocese of Quincy, have spurned their standing committee and Bishop Gregory Venables of the Province of the Southern Cone. By a lopsided margin of 181 to 35, they have elected to remain in the Episcopal Church. Four hundred of the tiny diocese's 1850 members belong to the cathedral parish, and it accounts for 22 percent of Quincy's average Sunday attendance.

Visit the new diocesan Web site.

Addendum: Read the ENS story.

Posted by Jim Naughton on December 4, 2008 11:14 PM | |
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