Posts from June 2011
Local Episcopal Parties Submit Proposed Orders to Judge Chupp
On June 24, 2011, the Local Episcopal Parties filed their Motion to Tender Orders with the 141st District Court of Tarrant County. The hearing on the motion is set for Thursday, July 21 at 10:30 a.m., for about ten minutes. On February 8, 2011, the Honorable Judge Chupp ruled – like courts across Texas and around the nation – that the breakaway defendants who left The Episcopal Church must cease holding themselves out as the Episcopal Diocese and must return historic Church…
Parties File Jurisdictional Statements in Texas Supreme Court
On June 16, 2011 the Episcopal Parties filed their response to the breakaway defendants’ statement of jurisdiction in the Texas Supreme Court. A copy of the breakaways’ statement is here; a copy of the Episcopal response is here. The Rt. Rev. C. Wallis Ohl, provisional bishop of Fort Worth, said, “We remain encouraged by Judge Chupp’s rulings in our favor. I know we all are eager to be reunited with those who have been separated from us, but I urge everyone…