The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, which is owned by 28 Episcopal dioceses in 12 states, will receive an estimated $7 million in the final bequest from the estate of one of America's foremost writers.
07 October 1996
An emergency grant of $25,000 from the Presiding Bishop's Fund For World Relief was sent to the Diocese of North Carolina where Hurricane Fran brought flooding and destruction on 9 September.
07 October 1996
Indians in Argentina are taking a stand against the abuse of their rights with the support of the local Anglican Church.
07 October 1996
The Rev. John Kirkman of Western Michigan called my office to report that Mrs Betty Heidema's son was kidnapped near Quito, Ecuador. Mrs Heidema is the treasurer of his parish and her son is also Episcopalian. Fr. Kirkman asked us to contact Mrs Heidema directly, which my assistant did and obtained the following details:
22 August 1996
The Anglican Communion Office has read in the diocesan paper of Trinidad and Tobago, that two women were ordained priest in the Anglican Diocese of Barbados in May. The women Sonia Hinds and Beverley Knight were ordained by the Rt Revd Rufus Brome at the Cathedral of St Michael, Bridgetown.
26 July 1996
One of the oldest churches in the United States, where George Washington held his inaugural services and Alexander Hamilton was buried following his fatal duel with Aaron Burr, kicked off a year long celebration of its 300 years of history in May.
02 July 1996
The board of directors of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief awarded $1,037,729 in relief and development grants during its semi-annual meeting in New York, in June. The board also approved the release of $340,500 in emergency and special grants made during the time between board meetings.
02 July 1996
Ten Episcopal bishops who brought ecclesiastical charges against a fellow bishop for ordaining a non-celibate homosexual as a deacon will not appeal on the Church court's decision dismissing those charges.
02 July 1996
The Standing Committee of the Diocese of Maine announced in May that Bishop Edward Chalfant has resigned, following revelations that he had been involved in an extra-marital relationship with an unmarried adult lay woman.
19 June 1996
During a meeting on 21 April in Moscow, Patriarch Alexi of Moscow and All Russia blessed the emerging cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Episcopal Church USA as the Russians restored their military chaplaincy with the appointment of Bishop Savva.
19 June 1996