Monday, December 29, 2008

Keeping the faith, leaving the fold

http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/516507.html?nav=5047

[Observer] 29 Dec 2008--A theological rift between a local Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York led a congregation to re-establish its faith with a new denomination.

On Dec. 14, a majority of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church congregation in Tonawanda left in a split with the diocese over theological differences between the increasingly liberal Episcopal Church and more conservative congregation members, establishing St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church less than a mile away. Now, the small congregation of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Forestville is following suit with a similar break from the diocese, likely establishing itself as a local mission extension of the new-found St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church.
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