The Diocese of Pittsburgh has moved its yearly Diocesan Convention forward by a month so as to be better positioned to respond to the expected action by the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops following the Lambeth Conference.
From the Diocesan website:
“After extensive consultation, and with the consent of the Standing Committee, I am moving the time and place of the 143rd Annual Convention of the Diocese to Saturday, October 4th, 2008, at St. Martin’s Church, Monroeville.
Registration of clerical and lay deputies will be from 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. The Convention Eucharist will begin at 8:30 a.m. The business session of Convention will begin immediately following the Eucharist. Lunch will be served at midday. It is anticipated that all matters required to come before the Annual Convention will be complete during the afternoon, with adjournment at the completion of said business.
The date and place of the Annual Convention having been previously set, I am announcing this change under the provisions of Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the Diocese. The expressed threat of deposition of the Diocesan Bishop at a September meeting of the House of Bishops is the ‘sufficient cause.’”
Bishop Duncan asks his people to “keep every aspect of this momentous Convention” in their prayers.
Mark Harris has a pretty thorough analysis of this action.
Read Thinking Anglicans’ article and subsequent discussion on this news here.