According to the Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs, the Rev. Donald Armstrong, III, executive director of the Anglican Communion Institute, is under investigation for possibly misusing his parish’s funds.
Armstrong, rector for Grace and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, “was placed on 90-day paid administrative leave last week by Bishop Robert O’Neill, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado. He’ll be unable to step on church property or wear his habit during that time, and ‘will not exercise any functions or pastoral responsibilities as a priest,’ according to a diocesan release.”
The ACI is a conservative Episcopal/Anglican think tank with close ties to Bishop Robert Duncan’s Anglican Communion Network.