{"id":1006,"date":"2008-10-20T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/10\/california-clerics-ousted-for.php"},"modified":"2008-10-20T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T17:14:13","slug":"california-clerics-ousted-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/10\/california-clerics-ousted-for","title":{"rendered":"California Clerics Ousted for Leaving Episcopal Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(RNS) An Episcopal Church committee voted Friday (Oct. 17) to oust more than 50 California clerics who left the denomination last year to join a more conservative province in the Anglican Communion.<br \/>\nThe 16 deacons and 36 priests have six months to recant and return to the Episcopal Church before they are defrocked by Bishop Jerry Lamb of the Fresno-based Diocese of San Joaquin, according to Episcopal News Service.<br \/>\nCharged with &#8220;abandoning&#8221; the Episcopal Church, the 52 deacons and priests would no longer be allowed to function as Episcopal clergy.<br \/>\nDiocesan spokeswoman Nancy Key said two clergy have decided to rejoin the Episcopal Church since the committee began considering charges against them.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is our hope, actually, that everybody will decide to remain part of the Episcopal Church,&#8221; Key told ENS.<br \/>\nIn late 2007, 42 of 47 parishes in the diocese left the Episcopal Church and joined the Argentina-based Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. Bishop John-David Schofield, who seceded with his diocese, was defrocked by the Episcopal Church last January, though he remains a bishop in the Southern Cone.<br \/>\nThe Episcopal Church has since worked to rebuild the San Joaquin Diocese, appointing Lamb to oversee the estimated 1,500 Episcopalians who stayed with the denomination.<br \/>\nLast month, a conservative majority in the Diocese of Pittsburgh also split from the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and aligned with the Southern Cone. Two more dioceses &#8212; Fort Worth, Texas, and Quincy, Ill. &#8212; are poised to make similar moves next month.<br \/>\nConservatives, a minority in the 2.2-million member Episcopal Church, have agonized for decades over the denomination&#8217;s liberal drift on sexual morality and biblical interpretation. The consecration of an openly gay man as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003 hastened their withdrawal from the Episcopal Church.<br \/>\n<em>By Daniel Burke<br \/>\nCopyright 2008 Religion News Service.  All rights reserved.  No part of this transmission may be distributed or reproduced without written permission.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(RNS) An Episcopal Church committee voted Friday (Oct. 17) to oust more than 50 California clerics who left the denomination last year to join a more conservative province in the Anglican Communion. 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