Amended
John-David Schofield has changed the name of his corporation back to “The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of San Joaquin The Living Church reports:
California law provides a somewhat unique form of incorporation for church denominations. Under a “corporation sole,” there is one shareholder, one officer and one director, who are one and the same person, usually the diocesan bishop in an Episcopal diocese.
After a majority of clergy and lay delegates voted to leave The Episcopal Church and affiliate with the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone last December, Bishop John-David Schofield filed an amendment to the diocese’s charter, changing the name of the corporation from “The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of San Joaquin, a Corporation Sole” to “The Anglican Bishop of San Joaquin, a Corporation Sole.”
Since then, the name has been changed back to “The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of San Joaquin, a Corporation Sole.” Earlier this month, Bishop Lamb swore to the California Secretary of State that there was only one Diocese of San Joaquin and that he had been elected provisional bishop of that diocese on March 29.
John-David Schofield has a history of not anticipating the consequences of his actions. Will the real Protestant Episcopal Bishop of San Joaquin, a Corporation Sole please stand up?
Amendment – A reader suggests that it was not John-David Schofield and friends who changed the name back. It’s not clear from the article, but that is a possible reading of the Living Church article. We welcome further clarification.