Judge Gergel confirms and expands September 19 injunction affirming The Episcopal Church in South Carolina as the historic Diocese of South Carolina, noting “The Defendants [the disassociated diocese] here clearly violated the terms of the Court’s Order and Injunction.”
The Rt Revd Michael Curry, bishop diocesan of the Diocese of North Carolina has been elected by the House of Bishops to be the next Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. The House of Deputies has confirmed the election. +Michael will be the first African American Presiding Bishop.
As with Episcopal priests, Lutheran pastors often serve more than one small congregation at the same time. The Revd Mary Duersken was pastor to both Lutheran Church of the Ascension in Waterford MI and Sylvan Lake Lutheran Church in West Bloomfield MI.
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