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People Mentioned in the Articles
  • Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams
  • Archbishop Robert Duncan
  • Bishop Frank T. Griswold
  • Bishop Gene Robinson
  • Bishop Henry Scriven
  • Bishop Johnson
  • Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
  • Bishop Kenneth Price Jr.
  • Bishop Martyn Minns
  • Bishop Minns
  • Bishop V. Gene Robinson
  • Bishop-elect Dorsey McConnell
  • David Grinnell
  • Deacon Homer Hicks
  • Deacon Peter Frank
  • Doug Toth
  • Felix R. Brunot
  • Fran Gargotta
  • Gen. Thomas Howell
  • Jack Iker
  • Jeremy Bonner
  • Jim Naughton
  • Jim Wilson
  • Joan Morris
  • John-David Schofield
  • Joseph M. James
  • Judge James
  • Lionel Deimel
  • Martin Luther
  • Mary Cassatt
  • Mary Roehrich
  • Munson
  • Professor Steinmetz
  • Rev. Bruce Robison
  • Rev. Charles Robertson
  • Rev. Cynthia Bronson Sweigert.
  • Rev. Daniel Hall
  • Rev. David Wilson,
  • Rev. Dr. Kendall Harmon
  • Rev. Edwards
  • Rev. Ephraim Radner
  • Rev. George Werner
  • Rev. H. W. Herrmann
  • Rev. Harold Lewis
  • Rev. James Simons
  • Rev. Jeff Murph
  • Rev. Jonathan Millard
  • Rev. Joseph Martin
  • Rev. Karen Stevenson
  • Rev. Lawrence Deihle
  • Rev. Lynn Edwards
  • Rev. Mary Hays
  • Rev. Peter Frank
  • Rev. Philip Wainwright
  • Rev. Simons
  • Rev. Susan Russell
  • Rev. V. Gene Robinson
  • Rev. Werner
  • Rev. William L. Sachs
  • Rich Creehan
  • Robert Cassatt
  • Robert Williams
  • Susan Pollard
  • Valerie Munson
  • Walter DeForest
  • William Penn
Quotes in the Articles
  • Deimel:
    • "a bittersweet victory."
    • "All of us are trying to figure out how to work together,"
    • "I suspect that, to some degree, all sides are going to try to avoid divisive issues until we have a longer history of working with one another."
  • Bonner:
    • "Most of the historic churches are located in rural settings and have small endowments. They are more likely to be a burden on resources,"
  • Creehan:
    • "This is not a battle to gain control of church property. It's about operating assets,"
    • "Property issues will have to be resolved in the future"
    • "Anyone who wants to come back to the Episcopal Church is welcome, and we hope to find a way to proceed with those who don't [want to return] in a spirit of reconciliation,"
  • DeForest:
    • "It is highly likely that Bishop Duncan and the other leadership of the diocese will purport to separate from the Episcopal Church, and it is our position that the court order of Oct. 14, 2005, addresses what will happen in that regard,"
    • "It is certainly the position of Calvary that the new leadership of the diocese will be in charge of those assets."
  • Deimel:
    • "a bittersweet victory."
    • "All of us are trying to figure out how to work together,"
    • "I suspect that, to some degree, all sides are going to try to avoid divisive issues until we have a longer history of working with one another."
  • Donegan:
    • "As a lesbian, I have found the Episcopal Church to be embracing. I have been transformed by the love in this church,"
  • Duncan:
    • "In many ways the election speaks for itself,"
    • "For the Anglican Communion worldwide, this election reveals the continuing insensitivity and disregard of the Episcopal Church for the present dynamics of our global fellowship."
    • "I believe we're at the beginning of something that is very significant for the Christian church in North America and for the Anglican Communion worldwide,"
    • "we will not make any women bishops until the matter is resolved in the whole Anglican Communion,"
    • "We have managed the last year without any income from our assets," he said. "We are doing well."
    • "The Lord is blessing us. There aren't any glum faces around here,"
    • "episcopal commissary"
    • "a historic day."
    • "They used to burn us at the stake, but I'm increasingly fire-retardant,"
    • "Our God is a consuming fire. Buenos dias."
    • "We have a tough road ahead. We will be faithful and charitable and do everything we can to help those congregations who are uneasy about this, or who may be very opposed to this, to be part of our fellowship,"
    • "This is the most wonderful diocese in the church,"
    • "There is no reason that we cannot continue being this way with each other"
    • "Maybe some day God will put us back together,"
    • "The matter finally comes down to an unavoidable choice between cultures. There is the culture of the wider Episcopal Church: Theologically innovative, at the edge of mainstream Christianity, secularly attuned, declining ... and ready to sue or depose to obtain its way," he said. "By contrast there is the culture of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh: Scripturally centered, critiquing the secular agenda, among the fastest and few growing dioceses of the Episcopal Church, relative to the population decline ... allowing vast freedoms in the form and manner of ministry."
  • Edwards:
    • "When we're in chapter meetings, I call him Archbishop, because that is his title now. I would never dream of calling him Mr. Duncan, as some people have. ... He is still a bishop, he simply isn't my bishop any more,"
  • Frank:
    • "It's surprising to see them turn so quickly to the courts. We were hoping for a mediated settlement,"
    • "It is not our hope to be anything separate from Anglicanism. It is our hope to unite Anglicans who have been committed to maintaining what Anglicans have always believed,"
    • "a fair and equitable distribution of property"
  • Gargotta:
    • "Bishop Johnson is the right person for us. ... He understands what has transpired, and that there needs to be some healing."
    • "It's like someone opened the windows and let in fresh air."
  • Grinnell:
    • "an awkward balance between Presbyterians and Episcopalians for political power,"
    • "Trinity Cathedral was home to many of our early political figures,"
  • Gunderson:
    • "This has all the pain that comes from any type of separation, absolutely,"
    • "I think it's been a tragic mistake. The Episcopal Church is not what it has been called [by those who want to leave]. I mourn the division and its consequences,"
    • "The Episcopal Church has not allowed property to walk off quietly into the night,"
  • Hall:
    • "I cannot support this resolution because of this time of spiritual desolation in which I find myself ... St. Ignatius commends us to refrain from making significant decisions when we find ourselves so desolated,"
  • Harmon:
    • "Her gender has to be combined with her response to Windsor,"
    • "Their anxiety will be focused less on her gender than her theology."
  • Hays:
    • "Women in realignment who have a call to ordination will be ordained here,"
  • Herrmann:
    • "Just like we can't use grape juice and saltines for Communion, because it isn't the right matter, we do not believe that the right matter is being offered here,"
  • Hetzler:
    • "I have friends there, but I feel a release not being there any more. My heart is in the parish where I belong now,"
  • Hicks:
    • "We've all agreed that what has happened has happened,"
    • "We wish the other churches well. Christianity in this country is suffering and there is plenty of room for growth for everybody."
    • "We felt that, to have a fresh start, we should be someplace that would give us an opportunity to reach into a community that didn't already have an Anglican church,"
  • James:
    • "However, I find that the language is clear and unambiguous and, therefore, requires no further explanation,"
    • "The property is to be held or administered by the Episcopal Diocese of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. Regardless of what name defendants now call themselves, they are not the Episcopal Diocese of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America."
  • Johnson:
    • "I don't talk about the problems we face in this diocese unless they ask me. I find that most people are focused forward,"
    • "When I arrived it was just me -- a bishop, a cell phone and a car. It was like being a missionary bishop,"
    • "I was very intentional about how I wanted to act with him, to approach the meeting with a spirit of Christian reconciliation,"
    • "But we have to believe that we're called to do the work that our Lord wants us to do, each in his own way, and not look back."
    • "We don't always know for certain just how. I don't, and Bishop Duncan doesn't,"
  • Lewis:
    • "To remain part of the convention would appear that we condone the actions they have taken," he said. "There are no winners here ... No one likes to see a diocese bifurcate for any reason."
    • "This is a very sad day. There are no winners here,"
    • "are occupying positions in the life of the diocese which were impossible for us before because we were on the wrong side of the ideological divide,"
  • Luther:
    • "Here I stand. I can do no other." It continued, "I will neither compromise the faith once and for all delivered to the saints, nor will I abandon the sheep who elected me to protect them."
  • Martin:
    • "begotten children of God,"
    • "We only want to preserve the faith that the people who came before us have believed and loved and known,"
  • McConnell:
    • "I had to get used to driving here because people are so polite,"
    • "I've been unnerved by the kindness of people in traffic. They let you turn left in front of them. I love this city."
    • "my brooding atheist poet phase,"
    • "so marvelous it leapt past my intellectual defenses and right into my heart,"
    • "I stumbled over the threshold into all that glory, and the grace of God hit me like a train. I had never seen anything so beautiful. I kept coming back."
    • "I needed more than a little help. I needed a savior,"
    • "There was this sense that God was really active and the Holy Spirit was serious about giving good gifts to his people,"
    • "From Orthodoxy, I retain the deep sense of beauty and the mystery of God, and the sense of continuity between the communion of saints in heaven and on Earth. From the Catholic side of Anglicanism I have a passion for the sacraments and for the presence of Christ in the Eucharist and through the liturgy,"
    • "From the evangelical side there is the priority and authority of the word of God in scripture and the vigorous sense of unlimited grace through the cross of Christ. The charismatic side was really the sense that God has power to do something about the things that afflict us, that he wants to and can be called on and counted on. From the progressive side ... there is engagement with contemporary society and passion for social justice."
    • "I also know the feeling ... of having colleagues who have looked at me as some kind of dinosaur,"
    • "I tried to join myself into diocesan affairs, and I have enjoyed working with people from several different perspectives,"
    • "like getting married by mail order. The amount of information they had about the candidates was pretty small for making such a huge decision. I think under those circumstances, it's very hard to be seen three-dimensionally."
    • "I'm a good cook,"
    • "There would be food and Bible study and an open discussion about anything they'd like to talk about."
    • "I want to resolve these outstanding property issues in as timely a manner as possible, as equitably as possible and with as little further conflict as possible. I think we all want to get beyond this so we can be focused on the mission of Christ in our respective jurisdictions,"
    • "I always said I wouldn't dictate from the top down,"
    • "The lively question is, what on Earth does God have to do with the ordinary yearnings and struggles of average human beings, with the questions that are deeply embedded in people's hearts? Are we articulating that in a way that people can understand and that attracts them and helps them out?"
    • "Everybody is looking, in my experience, for two things: mercy and hope. The role of this diocese is every chance we get, in every pulpit, in every parish and every conversation outside our walls, to do everything we can to connect the love and power of God to that basic human yearning."
    • "I got a warm note from Bob following my election,"
  • McConnell's Mother:
    • "They were the enemy. They're allies now. Darling, learn this: Life is long, and we need each other,"
  • Millard:
    • "Where is the vision Where is the hope of staying with the Episcopal Church?"
    • "I'm praying for God's blessing on him, and I want him to have a fruitful ministry here in Pittsburgh,"
    • "I hope there would be ways we could work collaboratively, even though there has been recent, difficult history."
    • "We've done what we believe is right and we aren't in control of the consequences,"
    • "At the end of the day, the issues before us aren't about canons and conventions and procedures and lawsuits. They are about the centrality of the cross of Christ,"
    • "If the people in Pittsburgh were left to themselves, we could work this out. It's not rocket science,"
    • "The truth is the law can sometimes be a blunt instrument. The last thing anyone wants is winner-take-all,"
  • Morris:
    • "None of us has a full understanding or could divine the full truth, but we do have a divine call to search together as one body in Jesus Christ, regardless of the differences among us. Without each other we each see a smaller truth and lose the corrections that we need from each other,"
  • Munson:
    • "The position of the national church has been to encourage dioceses to litigate, rather than settle,"
    • "You have to look at each church's documents and try to understand the agreement between the church and the diocese,"
    • "This is just a mess,"
  • Murph:
    • "There is sadness, because we love these people and have worked together with them for years,"
    • "We had jambalaya for 100 and ran out of food,"
    • "It came down to a different calling from God,"
  • Radner:
    • "This is just a mess,"
    • "It will take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's a terrible scandal, a waste of resources,"
    • "St. Paul's no longer represented what we believed in. Toward the end there were people who weren't talking to me, just because my views were known to be a little more traditional,"
  • Robertson:
    • "official, recognized presence of the Anglican Communion in North America."
    • "There is room within the Episcopal Church for people with different views, and we regret that some have felt the need to depart form the diversity of our common life in Christ,"
  • Robison:
    • "It may take years to unravel,"
  • Russell:
    • "I'm thrilled,"
    • "I'm a cradle . I remember when there were no women priests. I remember when they said the church was going to split over the ordination of women. What we're giving as a Father's Day gift to the Anglican Communion is a woman primate, and that is wonderful."
  • Sachs:
    • "Can she run a big ship of state?"
    • "She is certainly smart enough, and she gets it. But can she translate that into an actual program?"
  • Schori:
    • "Alienation is often a function of not knowing another human being,"
    • "I have good relations with almost all the other bishops, those who agree and those who don't agree with me. I will bend over backwards to build good relations with those who don't agree with me."
    • "will be intensely grieved by the actions of individuals"
    • "I have repeatedly reassured Episcopalians that there is abundant room for dissent within this Church, and that loyal opposition is a long and honored tradition within Anglicanism. Schism is not,"
  • Scriven:
    • "What we have done today has been to bring the diocese fully back into mainstream Anglicanism,"
    • "fear is a very poor strategy for going forward, so I'm not worried particularly. One cannot change the past,"
    • "It hasn't been easy, but I think we are in a much better place and have shown a certain amount of resilience and love and compassion for each other."
  • Simons:
    • "We're not asking for anything the court has not already addressed, or for anything former leaders have not already agreed to,"
    • "It's going to cause tremendous disruption,"
    • "I don't think that creating a province based on theological perspective is going to work,"
    • "I don't think there's a very high likelihood that these disparate bodies will be able to hold together. They have a history of schism and fracturing."
    • "The Episcopal Church Welcomes You."
    • "a sad day."
    • "All of us who remain in the Episcopal Church will look after those who are suffering because of this split. We will find someone to minster to us as bishop. We will be recognized by the national church. We will have a diocese, and it will be healthy and faithful,"
    • "The impact won't be felt immediately"
    • "Sunday, for most people, will look pretty much the way last Sunday did,"
    • "We would have no difficulty sending people there,"
  • Stevenson:
    • "There is tremendous personal sadness. I love those people."
    • "It's hard to pursue the reconciliation that we want to have as fellow Christians because we feel we have to check with the lawyers to make sure we're not setting some precedent,"
  • Sweigert:
    • "Schism is a negative thing. I really agree with that. But yet, it feels like an abstraction. The reality is that we were in an unhappy marriage for so long that we needed to divide before there could ever be any hope of reconciliation."
    • "We had all experienced a convention that was much more positive and happy than in the past,"
    • "We are really happy in this new configuration,"
  • Toth:
    • "I don't get involved any more. I go to church, I worship quietly, I keep my opinions to myself and I leave,"
  • Wainwright:
    • "Jesus' instruction to the church is to seek and save the lost,"
    • "Many in the leadership of the Episcopal Church are still among the lost ... and are leading other souls astray. I believe those of us who can see that are sent by Christ to those very people to call them to repentance and new life."
  • Werner:
    • "Her heart is filled with Jesus,"
    • "On a case-by-case basis, all things are possible. The presiding bishop will carry out her fiduciary responsibility. She will keep the door unlocked. She will welcome people back,"
    • "Many people, myself included, want to make sure that [national leaders] don't slam a bishop in here who will tear us to shreds,"
  • Wilson:
    • "diametrically different beliefs"
    • "It would be far better to bless each other in separating . . . than to continue the internecine warfare,"
  • Williams:
    • "Today's action of the Diocese of Pittsburgh is not final,"
    • "But, more to the point, dioceses do not leave the Episcopal Church. Dioceses are set in place by the churchwide general convention."
    • "If we act today out of godly motives, with godly love toward one another, then both sides will be on God's side."
    • "It reminds me of the stories from World War I, where a truce was called for Christmas and soldiers from both sides met in the middle of no man's land to sing carols before they went back to shooting each other,"
Mentions of the Schism in the Articles
  • broken with traditional Christianity
  • drawn-out divorce
  • Episcopalians who wanted to leave the church but remain in the Anglican Communion put themselves under the authority of bishops in Africa and Latin America.
  • fractured dioceses
  • gay ordination
  • Oct. 4 vote by the Diocese of Pittsburgh to secede from the 2.1 million-member Episcopal Church, one of 38 provinces in the 80 million-member Anglican Communion, a global body of churches that grew out of the Church of England. The vote hinged on whether the denomination had abandoned biblical faith in matters ranging from salvation to sexuality.
  • realignment
  • reluctantly followed his bishop and parish out of the Episcopal Church.
  • rifts
  • the diocese would be disappointed if the court had awarded the assets to the Episcopal Diocese
  • withdrawal
  • "I don't talk about the problems we face in this diocese unless they ask me. I find that most people are focused forward,"
  • "I have friends there, but I feel a release not being there any more. My heart is in the parish where I belong now,"
  • "It came down to a different calling from God," he said of the split.
  • 57-parish Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh (Anglican) isn't affiliated with the Episcopal
  • A final vote is set for Oct. 4.
  • A legal battle over church property could be an expensive and long one
  • Anyone who wants to come back to the Episcopal Church is welcome, and we hope to find a way to proceed with those who don't [want to return] in a spirit of reconciliation,
  • approach the meeting with a spirit of Christian reconciliation
  • arguing diocesan property belongs to the people who built and maintain it
  • blatant disregard of Scripture
  • blatant disregard of Scripture
  • broke
  • broke away
  • broken relationships and anger over property litigation.
  • But Bishop Jefferts Schori held out hope of mending any breaks that her election or previous positions on issues might cause.
  • But Bishop Jefferts Schori held out hope of mending any breaks that her election or previous positions on issues might cause.
  • But Episcopal leaders are just as theologically conservative as the Anglicans.
  • Church had lost its biblical moorings
  • coherence
  • conservative group
  • conversations with friends on the other side
  • Debate was fraught with talk of litigation and of loss of pensions and cuts in salary for clergy who left the Episcopal Church
  • defendants now call themselves, they are not the Episcopal Diocese of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America."
  • differences
  • diocese's centrally owned assets.
  • disruption
  • dissident
  • divisions between liberal and conservative Episcopalians, and between many of the U.S. bishops and their counterparts in the global South, derive from differences over biblical authority and interpretation
  • divisive issues
  • Episcopal Church views the Pittsburgh secession as a violation of canon law and claims full rights to all church property. Litigation is expected
  • Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has voted to leave that denomination and realign with a theologically conservative Anglican province in another, yet to be chosen, nation
  • Episcopal dioceses will not send candidates there
  • felt threatened by his allies.
  • fight over gay bishops
  • fight over gay bishops
  • final vote
  • final vote on seceding
  • gay
  • gay
  • hard to pursue the reconciliation that we want to have as fellow Christians
  • he doubted that a rival Anglican province could grow much larger
  • he simply isn't my bishop any more,
  • ideological divide
  • laity representatives voted 119-69 and the clergy voted, 121-33, to secede
  • lawsuit filed against the diocese by other opponents of secession.
  • lead to new defections from the Episcopal Church, the American branch of Anglicanism.
  • leave
  • leave the church.
  • legal battle
  • lose their building to the Episcopal diocese,
  • lost about 50 of his church's 630 members, who started an Anglican parish in a Baptist church a few blocks away.
  • may not seek approval for their new province from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, or from the Anglican Consultative Council, the leadership group of bishops, clergy and laity that until now was largely responsible for blessing new jurisdictions.
  • members of the seceding diocese are confident about their new life together
  • minority of parishes that oppose Bishop Robert Duncan's plan to leave the U.S. branch of the Anglican Communion
  • moved too far to the theological left
  • new leadership of the diocese
  • new province
  • Nowhere is a spirit of reconciliation more evident than at historic Trinity Cathedral, Downtown.
  • once opposed each other
  • other groups that had left the Episcopal Church
  • parishes aren't competitors, but share a mission field,
  • parishes that seceded
  • pre-emptive strike against secession
  • realign
  • realign with the more conservative Anglican Province of the Southern Cone in South America over concerns about doctrine and sexual ethics.
  • Realignment
  • realignment
  • Reformation
  • regrets the split
  • schism
  • schism
  • Schism is a negative thing
  • schism over the sexuality
  • schism over the sexuality
  • secedes.
  • seceding group voted to leave the Episcopal Church for what they considered failure to uphold biblical doctrine.
  • secession
  • secession
  • secessionist church
  • secessionist diocese
  • separate from the Episcopal Church
  • separation
  • she did not mention suing the breakaway group
  • She moved to the Church of the Nativity in Crafton
  • sinking ship
  • Some of those caught in the split faced painful choices.
  • some United States congregations have left the Episcopal Church
  • some United States congregations have left the Episcopal Church
  • splinter congregation, St. John the Evangelist, the Rev. Lawrence Deihle still speaks glowingly of St. Thomas,
  • split
  • split
  • split follows decades of contention between the theologically conservative diocese and the U.S. denomination over doctrine, biblical authority and sexual ethics
  • split he fought
  • Standing Committee to oppose secession
  • stop blessing same-sex couples and place a moratorium on the election of gay bishops.
  • stop blessing same-sex couples and place a moratorium on the election of gay bishops.
  • strain relations
  • strain relations
  • take their church properties with them
  • the fight over ordaining gay bishops.
  • the fight over ordaining gay bishops.
  • The move threatens the fragile unity of the Anglican Communion,
  • there were people who weren't talking to me, just because my views were known to be a little more traditional,"
  • those who left wanted a clear break with the Episcopal Church.
  • transfer buildings and land to the seceding parishes that want them.
  • tremendous personal sadness
  • two competing provinces
  • two families of Anglicans
  • two parishes that its 30 members left.
  • U.S. and Canadian churches have failed to uphold biblical theology on matters from salvation to sexual ethics
  • unified breakaway church was precipitated by the decision to ordain an openly gay bishop and to bless gay unions
  • vote
  • vote to leave the national church
  • voted to leave
  • voted to secede
  • voting to withdraw
  • what has happened has happened,
  • WHEATON, Ill. — Conservatives alienated from the Episcopal Church announced on Wednesday that they were founding their own rival denomination, the biggest challenge yet to the authority of the Episcopal Church since it ordained an openly gay bishop five years ago.
  • While Archbishop Duncan builds a 100,000-member international body from scratch, Bishop Robert Johnson ministers part time to the 28-parish diocese that remains in the Episcopal Church. It now has an office in Monroeville.
  • withdraw
  • worships in the Anglican diocese while her husband works in the Episcopal diocese.
Parishes Mentioned in the Articles
  • All Angels Episcopal Church
  • Calvary Episcopal Church
  • Christ Church
  • Church of England
  • Church of Our Savior
  • Church of the Ascension
  • Church of the Atonement
  • Church of the Nativity
  • Church of the Redeemer
  • First Lutheran Church
  • Harvest Anglican Church
  • Old St. Luke's
  • Sheldon Calvary Camp
  • Shepherd's Heart
  • St. Andrew's Church
  • St. Brendan's
  • St. James the Less
  • St. John the Evangelist
  • St. Martin's Episcopal Church
  • St. Michael's of the Valley
  • St. Paul's Episcopal Church
  • St. Peter's
  • St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
  • St. Thomas
  • Trinity Cathedral

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