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The special convention was held in Charleston at St. Philip's Church on November 17, 2012. The convention affirmed the disassociation of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina from the Episcopal Church, and amended the diocesan constitution and canons to remove all references to the Episcopal Church. [14]
The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina was established in 1785 as one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States. The diocese originally covered the entire state of South Carolina, but the western part of the state became the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina in 1922.
In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, churches and dioceses began to disaffiliate from the Episcopal Church over matters of Christian doctrine, morality, and polity. [11] [12] In 2012 the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church. [13] [14] Five years later it aligned with the Anglican Church in North ...
Upper South Carolina: South Carolina link at Constitution & Canons page: Utah: Utah links at Governing Bodies page, at “For full descriptions of these diocesan offices, refer to the constitution and canons” Virginia: Virginia link at Constitution & Canons page: Washington: District of Columbia link at Constitution and Canons page: West ...
Beginning with the secession of South Carolina in December 1860, Southern dioceses struggled over the issue of their status in the Episcopal Church. The first diocese to separate was that of Louisiana, whose bishop Leonidas Polk issued a proclamation on January 30, 1861, stating, "The State of Louisiana having, by a formal ordinance, through ...
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He was the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina from 2008 to 2012, and of the diocese now known as the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina from 2012 to 2022. In November 2012, under his leadership, a large portion of the old diocese withdrew from the national Episcopal Church to become an independent Anglican diocese. They continued ...
South Carolina’s constitution says “all elections shall be free and open, and every inhabitant of this state possessing the qualifications provided for in this Constitution shall have an equal ...