Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning has announced that the Episcopal Church in the USA has reached an agreement to settle the Church's civil suits against former treasurer Ellen Cooke and her husband, Nicholas.
03 April 1996
Presiding Bishop Browning and his wife, Patti, made the pastoral visit to Archbishop Andrew Mya Han and the Anglican Church of the Province of Myanmar, 12-17 January, to learn how the Episcopal Church might assist the Church there.
04 March 1996
According to Episcopal News Service, the resolution, approved on 27 January after a year-long study by a diocesan task force, states that suicide by a terminally-ill patient is acceptable when "pain is persistent and/or progressive; when all other reasonable means of amelioration of pain and suffering have been exhausted; and when the decision to hasten death is a truly informed and voluntary choice free from external coercion."
04 March 1996
Eagles are fairly rare in central Oklahoma. So, on a cold afternoon in late January when three eagles were sighted circling low over the rolling grounds of St Crispin's Conference Center, 50 Native Americans duly took note.
04 March 1996
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
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