Monday, January 02, 2012

Married catholic bishop heads new episcopal church structure

Married catholic bishop heads new episcopal church structure

"   Pope Benedict XVI named a married former Episcopal bishop to head the first US organisational structure for disaffected Anglicans and Episcopalians who want to join the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI named a married former Episcopal bishop to head the first US organisational structure for disaffected Anglicans and Episcopalians who want to join the Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Jeffrey Neil Steenson, a father of three and Catholic convert, will lead the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, the equivalent of a diocese, that will be based in Houston, Texas, but will operate nationally. The Vatican created the first such ordinariate in Britain last year. Other ordinariates are being considered in Australia and Canada.

Rev Steenson stepped down in 2007 as the Episcopal Bishop of Rio Grande, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the Episcopal Church elected the first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Rev Steenson had said he was "deeply troubled" about the direction of the US denomination and he described the Catholic Church as the "true home of Anglicanism".  The Episcopal Church is the US Anglican body in the United States. " ......

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