Independence Day at St. Anne's. You can say that again.
Gotta love the "greater church" ambiguities used heavily in this article. Who, again, is leaving the "greater church?" Bold mine.
Via: AnglicansUnited.com » On July 4th, St. Anne’s Oceanside will celebrate return to the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego
On July 4th, St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Oceanside, California will return to their church at 701 West Street. San Diego bishop James Mathes invited the whole diocesan community to “celebrate Independence Day and the return of the Episcopal Church to St. Anne’s Oceanside” at a 10 am Eucharist Sunday July 4th over which he will preside.
The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego is slowly getting its properties back from breakaway Anglican churches. On November 10, 2009, San Diego Superior Court Judge Steven Denton ruled that the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego is the true owner of the Oceanside church building and grounds, as well as property inhabited by another Anglican congregation in Ocean Beach. Denton said that the parishes agreed
from the beginning of their existence to be part of a greater denominational church and to be bound by that greater church’s governing instruments . . . Those instruments make it clear that a local parish owns local church property in trust for the greater church and may use that property only so long as the local church remains part of the greater church.
P.S., the article alleges that one of six departing congregations left because a girl wanted to become an acolyte...? Can anyone substantiate that one? Sounds like a stretch.


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