Episcopal News Service October 27, 2006
Dallas Bishop clarifies request for 'alternative primatial oversight'
Stanton withdrew request to Canterbury for 'direct primatial relationship'
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[ENS] In a statement issued October 27, Episcopal Diocese of Dallas (http://www.episcopal-dallas.org/) Bishop James Stanton says that he "quietly" withdrew his diocese's request for a "direct primatial relationship" with the Archbishop of Canterbury in July.
Stanton's statement says that he withdrew the request because he had misgivings about the requests and because the terminology used was causing "confusion and some anxiety" in his diocese.
His statement comes in response to questions raised by an October 24 posting on the Diocese of Pittsburgh's website (http://www.pgh.anglican.org/news/local/apodocument102406) saying that the Diocese of Dallas had withdrawn its request for Alternate Primatial Oversight (APO).
That comment was made while introducing the full text of the appeal for a change in primatial oversight made July 20 to the Archbishop of Canterbury by the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Central Florida, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Joaquin, South Carolina, and Springfield. (The Diocese of Quincy joined the appeal September 16 (http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_77919_ENG_HTM.htm).) Pittsburgh's introductory comments refer only to APO.
"There is a problem here," Stanton said in his October 27 statement. "I never asked for APO."
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