Bishop Robert Duncan has created a new corporation called the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.
The application submitted to the Corporation Bureau of the Pennsylvania Department of State seeking to incorporate the non-profit organization states that its purpose is "upholding and propagating the historic Faith and Order as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer."
The new non-profit corporation is listed on the Pennsylvania Department of State's website here.
This is an attempt t0 protect property in the diocese, which under Episcopal Church canons is held in trust by the diocese for the entire church. The argument is assets instead belong to individual congregations and not the diocese itself.
The Episcopal Church's Title IV Review Committee has certified that Duncan has abandoned the communion of the Episcopal Church. Duncan has denied that charge. Two of the House of Bishops' three senior bishops refused to give Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori their canonically required consent to inhibit him, based on the certification, from the performance of any episcopal, ministerial or canonical acts. Such an inhibition requires the consent of all three senior bishops.
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