Virginia Supreme Court Will Review Episcopal Church Case

According to yesterday's Washington Post, the Virginia Supreme court has agreed to review a lower court's decision in In Re: Multi-Circuit Episcopal Church Property Litigation (see prior posting). The lower court held that under Virginia's "Division Statute," church properties belong to the congregations and not to the Episcopal Church USA and the Diocese. The Episcopal Church argues that the congregations never legally "divided," but instead a conservative faction merely decided to leave and affiliate elsewhere.