The Lead recently reported on a letter from the Presiding Bishop to the Bishop of San Joaquin asking him to draw back from his attempts to remove the Diocese of San Joaquin from the Episcopal Church. His reply has now been published by Episcopal Life Online.
Responding to a letter from Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop John-David Schofield of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin said the House of Bishops has “ignored my views for nearly twenty years” and blamed the wider Episcopal Church for any decision by the diocese to sever its ties and attempt affiliation with another province of the Anglican Communion.
“The decision to be made by our Annual Convention [December 8] is the culmination of The Episcopal Church’s failure to heed the repeated calls for repentance issued by the Primates of the Anglican Communion and for the cessation of false teaching and sacramental actions explicitly contrary to Scripture,” Schofield wrote in a December 5 letter responding to a letter Jefferts Schori sent him earlier in the week.
Read it all here.