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Related: About this forumFort Worth's All Saints Episcopal Church declares bankruptcy
FORT WORTH, Texas In a move that surprised Episcopalians around North Texas, All Saints Episcopal Church declared bankruptcy on Wednesday. The 75-year-old institution was at the center of a property dispute hearing in the 141st District Court.
All Saints was one of six local parishes forced out of their buildings in April. The Texas Supreme Court awarded their property, along with more than $100 million of other Episcopal Church properties, to a splinter group that left the Episcopal Church in 2008 over disagreements about ordaining women and including LGBTQ people in the full life and ministry of the church. The dispute between the two factions has been simmering for more than a decade.
That splinter group, now officially called The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth after the Supreme Courts ruling, sued the rectors of All Saints and Saint Lukes in the Meadow two of the six congregations that lost their buildings claiming those churches were withholding property the courts awarded to the diocese in April. Though all of the land owned by the six churches has been handed over, the diocese is also staking claim to money collected on behalf of the church and various other pieces, such as statues and books.
The Rev. Karen Calafat of Saint Lukes and Rev. Christopher Jambor of All Saints were the only two people named in the contempt of court lawsuit.
Read more: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/san-antonio/religion/2021/10/21/fort-worth-s-all-saints-church-declares-bankruptcy
OneBro
(1,159 posts)When will they accept that Zeus is the way?
rampartc
(5,407 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,140 posts)where the case might be settled by Sharia law (at least that's what the RWNJ there would have you believe).
rampartc
(5,407 posts)FBaggins
(26,731 posts)In VA, the results of the same conflict were the opposite of what is described as occurring in TX.
Its less of a doctrinal matter than a property rights matter and how state laws differ as they relate to the corporate structures of different churches.