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flockwoodDiocese of Indianapolis Standing Committee President Frank Guthrie said the vote was 4-1 to give consent to the bishop-elect of Northern Michigan. The vote took place on April 16, he said.
Meanwhile, the Standing Committee of Arkansas voted this morning (April 29, 2009) to withhold consent, standing committee president the Rev. Pam Morgan said. We’re playing phone tag (I shouldn’t have taken that coffee break) but I’ll post more details if I get them.
Guthrie, the Indianapolis standing committee president, said he generally votes to give consent, if the bishop-elect satisfies canon law requirements.
“My basic attitude towards these things is if a diocese wants a person as their bishop … they’re entitled to have them, if it’s a fair, honest election.” Guthrie said. “I’d want our diocese to be allowed the opportunity to pick whoever we wanted.”
April 29th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Guthrie has to answer to a higher authority than canon law on the Day of Judgment. It’s a shame that he doesn’t recognize that Forrester is an enemy of the Gospel and shouldn’t be a rector let alone a bishop.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
How interesting that the diocese of Indianapolis claims to believe that a diocese should have the bishop of its choosing. They didn’t believe that in 2007, however. They voted TWICE to deny consent to Mark Lawrence, the bishop elect of South Carolina. See details at Stand Firm here: (see comment thread)
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/22243/
April 30th, 2009 at 11:16 am
You don’t reckon that vote was because Fr. Lawrence was a schismatic whose real purpose in seeking election to the episcopate was to abandon the Episcopal Church and take South Carolina with him, do you?
April 30th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Dear Caleb,
I believe that Bishop Lawrence and the Diocese of South Carolina are still both in the Episcopal Church.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
http://www.dioceseofsc.org/mt/archives/cat_bishop_lawrence.html
May 1st, 2009 at 12:59 pm
We’ll see how long that lasts, UKLutheran.