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The Texas Supreme Court ruled that: "(1) resolution of this property dispute does not require consideration of an ecclesiastical question, (2) under the governing documents, the withdrawing faction is the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, and (3) the trial court properly granted summary judgment in the withdrawing faction's favor.
The Diocese of Fort Worth (Latin: Diœcesis Arcis-Vorthensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in North Texas in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Antonio. The Diocese of Fort Worth was erected on August 9, 1969. As of 2023, the bishop is Michael Fors Olson.
The jurisdiction was the site of a major schism in 2008. This schism was the result of the diocese's bishop, Jack Iker, leading the majority of clergy and parishes to join the Anglican Church of North America as the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. The Episcopal Church diocese is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It announced on April 22 ...
Michael Anderson, an attorney with the Fort Worth Kelly Hart & Hallman law firm representing the diocese, said the nuns’ court filing was a “rehash” of a suit that was filed last year with ...
The decree was issued after the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth and the Rev. Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach were in a dispute stemming from an investigation into a report that she violated her ...
The Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth said in a statement Friday they it not been notified of the “dangerously rebellious decision by the dismissed prioress and the other nuns.” ...
The court ruled that resolving the property dispute did not require ecclesiastical questions but that "under the governing documents, the withdrawing faction is the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, and the trial court properly granted summary judgment in the withdrawing faction's favor."
A hearing on the diocese’s request to dismiss the case because of a lack of jurisdiction is scheduled for May 23, according to Michael Anderson, an attorney for the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth.