Paper Reports On Clergy Clash In Break-Away Episcopal Church

While numerous reports have chronicled the progress of litigation between the Episcopal Church and break-away congregations wishing to affiliate with more conservative Anglican convocations, Saturday's Hartford Courant furnishes a different perspective. In an article titled Episcopalian Split Comes Down To Locked Groton Church, the paper reports on the experience of Rev. David Cannon who was appointed by the Episcopal Church to take over leadership of Bishop Seabury Church in Groton, CT. Rev. Ronald Gauss, the church's existing leader, whose move to the Convocation of Anglican Churches in North America is supported by church members, refused to turn over church keys or its books to Rev. Cannon. This, like numerous other cases, is lkely to end up in litigation over who owns the church property.