VIRGINIA: Diocese Announces Settlement with Potomac Falls Church and Christ the Redeemer Church
September 26, 2008
The Diocese of Virginia today announced that it has reached a legal settlement with Potomac Falls Church in Potomac Falls and Christ the Redeemer Church in Chantilly. The mission churches, which do not hold any real property, will make a payment to the Diocese as part of the settlement ending the litigation between the parties.
The settlement also includes the Episcopal Church. Under the agreement, the Diocese will release the two churches from any claims or future liability arising from the litigation. In recognition of past diocesan efforts to build, grow and support Potomac Falls and Christ the Redeemer - two mission churches that built and continued meaningful ministries in their communities, conducting worship services in local elementary schools - the churches' payment will support diocesan ministries, including overseas mission work and Shrine Mont camps, among others.
"We are grateful to the leadership of Potomac Falls Church and Christ the Redeemer for their courage and willingness to resolve this dispute in a mutually satisfactory manner," said the Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee, Bishop of Virginia.
"The Diocese's main concern has always been to safeguard the legacy of Episcopal faith and worship in Virginia. This litigation is unfortunate and we are grateful to have found an agreement that allows Potomac Falls Church and Christ the Redeemer to return to what matters most: knowing and serving God through Jesus Christ." Today's settlement does not include the other nine churches that voted to leave the Diocese.
The Diocese remains firmly committed to the continuing congregations left behind when those churches departed and will take all steps necessary to ensure that loyal Episcopalians will be able to return to their Episcopal homes. Generations of Episcopalians pledged themselves to the Diocese in order to ensure a lasting legacy of Episcopal faith and worship in Virginia.
"We will continue every effort to protect the legacy of our past and the promise of our shared future," said Henry D.W. Burt, Secretary of the Diocese.
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NOTE: VOL was told by CANA leaders that the amounts were about $10,000 per church and involved no property issues.
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| daveball | Posted: 2008/9/28 19:50 Updated: 2008/9/28 19:50 |
Home away from home   Joined: 2004/12/18 From: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 2718 |
 Re: VIRGINIA: Diocese Announces Settlement with Potomac F..."The Diocese's main concern has always been to safeguard the legacy of Episcopal faith and worship in Virginia."
What a pile of nonsense. If Lee and his buddy Schori had any concept of the legacy of the Episcopal Church, they would not be doing what they are doing. Vipers and hypocrites. |
| Cennydd | Posted: 2008/9/28 20:15 Updated: 2008/9/28 20:15 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 7358 |
Re: VIRGINIA: Diocese Announces Settlement with Potomac F... This is nothing more than extortion, and the last I heard, it's a crime in every jurisdiction in the country!
Cennydd |
| Ikerliker | Posted: 2008/9/28 20:54 Updated: 2008/9/28 20:54 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2007/1/16 From: PA Posts: 2052 |
Re: VIRGINIA: Diocese Announces Settlement with Potomac F... TEc probably requested payment in small, unmarked bills.
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| patulous | Posted: 2008/9/29 7:07 Updated: 2008/9/29 7:07 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2007/5/18 From: Posts: 1802 |
Re: VIRGINIA: Diocese Announces Settlement with Potomac F... Quote: "The Diocese remains firmly committed to the continuing congregations left behind when those churches departed."
Firmly committed to TEC is to warn them that if they make a wrong step, more litigation will come down on thier heads also. Ruling with an iron hand will not convert new people to serve in TEC....unless your homosexual, and one report says that few of them are flocking to TEC as once thought. |
| jane4re | Posted: 2008/9/30 11:56 Updated: 2008/9/30 11:56 |
Not too shy to talk   Joined: 2005/12/10 From: Posts: 25 |
Re: VIRGINIA: Diocese Announces Settlement with Potomac F... My husband and I attended CTR when we lived in Virginia. We did meet in a local school but paid off the mortgage on the beautiful, prime, piece of land where the future building was going to be. I am curious if the "settlement"included giving that land to the diocese. CTR's vicar left not long after we did to join the staff of the Network. Anyone out there know what's going on?
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