Quincy Synod Votes to Join the Southern Cone

Posted on: November 7, 2008

In two resolutions, clergy and lay delegates to the annual synod in the Diocese of Quincy voted overwhelmingly to remove The Episcopal Church from the accession clause of the diocesan constitution and to join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone.

The Nov. 7 vote to leave The Episcopal Church was approved 41-14 in the clergy order and 54-12 by the laity. The offer to join the Southern Cone on a temporary basis was approved 46-4 in the clergy order and 55-8 in the lay order.

In a brief message read after the results of the second resolution was announced, Presiding Bishop Venables of the Southern Cone congratulated the members of synod and announced that he had appointed the Rev. Edward denBlaauwen, rector of Christ Church, Moline, Ill., to serve as vicar general. Quincy has been without a bishop since the Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman resigned for reasons of health on Nov. 1.

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