Church News
February 2010
Bishop Takes Castle
When clergyman Jack Iker became convinced the Episcopal Church was losing its way, he left-and took the Fort Worth diocese, with almost all its property, with him. Now the church is fighting back, and the stakes couldn't be higher.
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News Release, September 10, 2009,The Hickory Daily Record
St Mark's Celebrates Second Anniversary!
St. Mark's Anglican Church, one of Hickory's newest denominations celebrated their second Anniversary Friday evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs Grimes Byerly in Hickory.This was one our largest gatherings as St. Mark's coninues to grow.
On the larger international scene, St. Mark's is affiliated with Province I of North America consisting of both the United States and Canada, where combined over 700 parishes and over 100,000 parishioners have just committed to joining a conservation church unit with one central governing body, but individual ownership of church properties by each separate parish.
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WHEATON, Ill., Dec. 3, 2008
Anglican Leaders Begin Forming New Church in North America
Bishops, clergy and lay leaders from the United States and Canada unveiled a provisional constitution and the first set of canons for the new Anglican Church in North America at a news conference and worship service Wednesday at Wheaton Evangelical Free Church in suburban Chicago.
The movement unites 700 orthodox Anglican congregations, representing roughly 100,000 people, in an organization that members believe will be recognized as a province – the Anglican term for the church’s largest regional jurisdictions – by many of the world’s Anglican leaders. (Read more)
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