Ellen F Cooke, the former national treasurer of the Episcopal (Anglican) Church in the United States, has admitted stealing more than US$1.5 million from the Church.
04 March 1996
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, has appointed the Rt Revd David Birney, a senior bishop from the Episcopal Church in the United States, to act as his envoy to the Anglican Church in Rwanda.
16 February 1996
Michael Clarke, a youth worker at Trinity, Streetsville, has been named to the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest awards. Mr Clarke is being honoured for his work with troubled youth in Toronto and Mississauga. The award recognises outstanding achievement and service to Canada and to humanity.
03 February 1996
An unexplained bombing injured an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Alabama on New Year's Day. The Revd Michael Schnatterly, Rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Opelika, Alabama, suffered a broken wrist and finger, as well as contusions on his face, neck and abdomen, but escaped more serious injury from a bomb that FBI officials said was designed to kill its victim.
03 February 1996
In a poignant mountainside ceremony that seemed to reverse the country's very beginnings, an Episcopal bishop recently restored sacred lands to one of Virginia's most historically oppressed Indian tribes.
03 February 1996
The close relationship between the Episcopal Church and the Russian Orthodox Church was strongly reaffirmed during a recent meeting in Moscow of the joint co-ordinating committee established in 1989 to promote co-operation between the two Churches.
03 February 1996
The Episcopal Church court that will try the retired Bishop Walter Righter for heresy has agreed to try to settle the doctrinal issues involved first. The decision was made in January in response to a motion filed by those who accuse the former Bishop of Iowa. He has been charged with violating his own ordination vows by ordaining a non-celibate homosexual as a deacon.
03 February 1996