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The South Carolina Supreme Court's decision did not answer the question of who owned the use of the name "Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina", and other associated marks. [4] On September 19, 2019, a federal court awarded the names and intellectual property to the Episcopal Church and its South Carolina diocese.
Under the canons of the Episcopal Church, parish property is held in trust for the diocese and the Episcopal Church as a whole; however, South Carolina's diocesan chancellor defended the quitclaim deeds by citing a recent state Supreme Court ruling that the Episcopal Church's property canon was not binding on All Saints Parish in Pawleys Island ...
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 ...
The General Convention is the primary governing and legislative body of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.With the exception of the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Constitution and Canons, it is the ultimate authority in the Episcopal Church, being the bureaucratic facility through which the collegial function of the episcopate is exercised.
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 ...
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 ...
House Speaker Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, has introduced legislation that would strip from the SC Constitution the section that prohibits public dollars from being used for the direct benefit of ...
The Episcopal Church did not acknowledge any of the purported diocesan withdrawals, stating that under canon law an Episcopal diocese cannot withdraw itself from the larger Episcopal Church. In a "pastoral letter" to the South Carolina diocese, Presiding Bishop Schori wrote that "While some leaders have expressed a desire to leave The Episcopal ...