TWO BISHOPS claiming their right to the see of San Joaquin have accepted invitations to the Lambeth Conference. One is the Rt Revd John-David Schofield, who led the diocese that now calls itself “The Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin” into the Province of the Southern Cone. The other is the Rt Revd Jerry Lamb, whom the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the US, Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori, appointed as provisional bishop to replace Bishop Schofield after the separation.
The diocese voted in November to secede, a considerable time after Bishop Schofield received his invitation to Lambeth, in May 2007. He resigned from the US House of Bishops after the move, and was deposed in March this year, after having been judged to have abandoned the communion of the Church. Bishop Lamb was confirmed as provisional bishop in April.
Bishop Lamb wrote in his blog at the end of May: “I received great news three days ago from the office of the manager of the Lambeth Conference. The email says, ‘we are expecting you at the Lambeth Conference.’ I was wondering when the invitation would arrive or even, some days, if it would come to Jane and me. Well, it is here and we are making plans to attend.”
The Episcopalian diocese has a civil action against Bishop Schofield’s diocese over property and investment funds. Bishop Schofield has set up a new corporation, The Anglican Diocese Holding Company, and has accused Bishop Lamb, “his agents and the leadership of the Episcopal Church in the USA” of exhibiting “aggressive and disturbing behaviour” in “seizing” the St Andrew’s Mission in Taft. The property, he writes in a letter to Bishop Lamb dated 16 June, is held by his new Corporation. |
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