{"id":2309,"date":"2007-03-29T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/crossing-the-tiber.html"},"modified":"2007-03-29T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T16:23:18","slug":"crossing-the-tiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/crossing-the-tiber.html","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Tiber…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The very recently retired Episcopal Bishop of Albany<\/a><\/p>\n

From his letter:<\/p>\n

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In his letter to Bishop Love, Bishop Herzog stated that his decision was based on more than three years of focused prayer and study.<\/p>\n

"My sense of duty to the diocese, its clergy and people required that I not walk away from my office and leave vulnerable this diocese which I love," he wrote. "I believed that it was my responsibility to provide for a transition to the future. Your subsequent election and consecration discharged that duty and has given me the liberty to follow my conscience, and now resign my orders and membership in the House of Bishops.<\/p>\n

"It is certainly no reflection on you or your ministry which Carol and I both admire and respect and for which we pray daily. Needless to say, we have only fondness and appreciation for you and the diocese in whose ministry Carol and I have invested the past 35 years of our lives."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You’ll want to follow the comments at Titus One Nine<\/a><\/p>\n

and MCJ<\/a><\/p>\n

And…Archbishop Rowan Williams taking a 3-month break.<\/a><\/p>\n

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