"Provisional Bishop"???????

Walkabout Scheduled for San Joaquin Provisional Bishop Nominee


A single candidate chosen to be the provisional Bishop of San Joaquin will participate in a two-day walkabout visitation to the diocese immediately after the House of Bishops’ meeting concludes at Camp Allen in Texas on March 12.

The bishops are scheduled to vote on whether to depose the Rt. Rev. John-David Schofield as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin during a “business session” after Morning Prayer on that day. Bishop Schofield has already formally resigned from the House of Bishops. Bishops with jurisdiction must obtain consent from the House of Bishops to resign, according to national church canons.

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I am pretty sure this isn't even legal under the Canons. What exactly is a "provisional" bishop? Is that like provisional baptism - if you aren't sure you have a bishop, here's one in case? Or, is the consecration provisional? - If it turns out they already have a bishop, you aren't really consecrated? What the heck is 815 up to?

And, really, don't the National Canons specify that the Standing Committee is the Ecclesiastical authority until such time as that Committee calls for an election of a new bishop? Just when did 815 or the PB get that authority? I know she has "fired" the Diocese of San Joaquin Standing Committee, but, again, she does not have the authority to do so. They were duly and legally elected and have not left TEC for the Southern Cone.

But, hey, who cares. As long as the Millennium Development Goals and all things homosexual are affirmed as the highest & holiest good, they can do anything. This PB and her minions can do whatever they want, for they are on the side of the angels - the fallen kind.