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South Carolina court ruling goes against Episcopal Church

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 @ 00:00

by Pat Ashworth

THE Supreme Court of South Carolina has overturned a property decision on All Saints’, Pawley’s Island, made by a lower court in 2003. The court had ruled that the property and assets belonged to the congregation that remained after the vestry voted to leave the Episcopal Church in the United States and join the Church of the Province of Rwanda and the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA).

The then Bishop of South Carolina, the Rt Revd Edward Salmon, tried to circumvent the 2003 ...

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