Word: bishopate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paul's church, the home parish of Gene Robinson, sits in a quiet street in Concord, New Hampshire. On Tuesday evening a small group of his supporters gathered around a television inside to watch the results of the voting to confirm Robinson as their Bishop, the?first openly gay man to hold the office in the history of the Episcopal church.?A technician from a local TV station, there to cover the event, fumbled to hook the TV up to cable. Just before the announcement, it flickered into life...
RESIGNED. THOMAS O'BRIEN, 67, bishop of Phoenix, Ariz.; after being charged with leaving the scene of an accident in which his car struck and killed a 43-year-old carpenter. The accident followed a year of turmoil over O'Brien's alleged role in protecting priests accused of sexual abuse, which culminated in his striking a deal earlier this month with prosecutors to avoid possible obstruction-of-justice charges. If convicted, the prelate, who led Arizona's 480,000 Catholics for 22 years, could face more than three years in prison...
...decade ago it was women priests; now it's gay clergy. The Church of England is embroiled in another anguished dispute that pits liberals against conservatives and evangelicals, and threatens to split the 70-million-strong worldwide Anglican Communion apart. The trigger: Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries' appointment of a gay man as Bishop of Reading. Arguments over homosexuality in the priesthood have simmered for years, even as a blind eye has been turned to the fact that some members of the clergy are gay. But the appointment in May of Jeffrey John, canon theologian at London's Southwark Cathedral...
ELECTED. V. GENE ROBINSON, 56, as the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church; in a vote by clergy and lay members in Concord, N.H. The selection of Robinson, who was married and has two children but now lives with a male partner, still must be confirmed by the church's national convention next month. Said Robinson after his election: "We will show the world how to be a Christian community...
...stance on divestment was used as a model for universities across the country. In her six years as an overseer, she was not able to get Harvard to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa, but her term paved the way for the election of Bishop Desmond Tutu and others sympathetic to the divestment cause to the Board of Overseers in the late 1980s, and they were able to get a small passage calling for responsible investing in the Board of Overseers Handbook...