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U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Leaves Falls Church Property in The Episcopal Church
On March 10, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for writ of certiorari filed by a breakaway faction from the historic Episcopal congregation of Falls Church, Virginia. The order makes final the April 18, 2013 decision of the Supreme Court of Virginia that the continuing Falls Church Episcopal, founded in 1732, and not the breakaway faction that left in 2006, retains the church property. This case joins the long line of cases in which the nation’s highest court has…
Legal news from Diocese of Virginia
The trial court in Virginia ruled in favor of the Church and the Diocese regarding nine breakaway congregations, including the Falls Church and Truro churches. Read the full story, and read a copy of the opinion.
Virginia Supreme Court Rules for Episcopal Church and Diocese of Virginia
The Supreme Court of Virginia issued an opinion on June 10, 2010 in favor of The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Virginia. The decision addressed a dispute over the property of nine parishes whose leaders had left The Episcopal Church and had affiliated with the Anglican Province of Nigeria and its Convocation of Anglicans in North America (“CANA”). This decision turned on whether the specific dispute involving those parishes authorized those former Episcopalians to invoke the remedies of a…