Request to support legal defence for Diocese of Recife by December 1
Dear Colleagues,
The Diocese of Recife led by Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti is being sued for its property. They need $10,000 by December 1 to pay legal fees to defend their property.
The American Anglican Council has pledged to match one for one funds raised to support their legal defence fund up to $5000 raised. So far $2500 has been raised, so with the match we are half way there.
Are you or your church in a position to assist please either with a donation ( details below) or a pledge of funds to be sent? Funds may be sent to
The American Anglican Council
or to Anglican Mainstream, 21 High Street, Eynsham, OX29 4HE, UK. AM
is a charity and UK Gift Aid may be claimed
or by donation on www.anglican-mainstream.net through Paypal. Click
on the Orissa appeal on the right hand side and our donation section
will appear. You may indicate that funds are for Recife Support.
I enclose the report from the Church of England Newspaper this week.
Warmly in Christ
Chris Sugden
THE ANGLICAN Episcopal Church of Brazil (IEAB) has filed a lawsuit
against the breakaway Diocese of Recife seeking to gain control of
the diocese’s properties. On Oct 30, Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti
stated that "following the example of their allies in the USA and
Canada" the IEAB has "filed a suit against the Diocese of Recife in
Pernambuco’s State court seeking to annul our juridical identity."
They are "intent on the seizure of certain key proper ties (including
the Cathedral and the Diocesan Central Office), in which for so long
we have carried out the tasks of evangelism, thus posing a direct
threat to our mission and social outreach."
The Provincial Secretary of the Brazilian Church, the Rev Francisco
da Silva declined to comment on the litigation, but documents filed
with the court allege that following the mass deposition in 2005 of
Bishop Cavalcanti and 32 members of the Recife clergy, along with the
secession of approximately 95 per cent of the church’s members, the
church proper ties should now be turned over to the IEAB.
Historically the small Anglican Church in Brazil was supported by two
doctrinally and geographically distinct groups, with the Episcopal
Church of the US suppor ting the church in Souther n Brazil and the
Church of England suppor ting the church in the Northeast of the
country. Recife followed a different path of theological development
than the southern dioceses and retained an evangelical identity while
the southern dioceses moved into the Affirm-ing Catholic camp. At the
1998 Lambeth Conference, Bishop Cavalcanti was the sole Brazilian
bishop to vote with the majority in support of Resolution 1.10 on
Human Sexuality.
Following his 2005 deposition from the IEAB, Bishop Cavalcanti and
his diocese was given shelter in the Province of the Southern Cone.
While repeated public calls for reconciliation have been made by the
leaders of the IEAB, no action has ever been taken to resolve the
dispute.
"As a diocese, we have never surrendered to the option of unlimited
compre-hensiveness, nor capitulated to the absolute relativism that
marks the post- modern liberal revisionism of the Brazilian
Province," the Recife Standing Committee said on Oct 30.
"Neither have we accepted the attempt to force us into ‘continuing
church’ status. We are part of the Anglican Communion, part of the
Global South, partners of the Networks of the Anglican Communion in
the US and Canada, partners of the Common Cause Movement, of Gafcon,
signing on to the Jerusalem Declaration and the Fellowship of
Confessing Anglicans, in permanent dialogue with all the orthodox
expressions of Anglicanism, seeking to hear the voice of the Holy
Spirit in this slow, difficult, but inevitable realignment," they
said.
However, "geographical and cultural distances often cause us to feel
isolated and make it difficult for us to be heard and understood," by
the Western churches. "We hope that Anglican leaders, and the Gafcon
Primates’ Council, to whom we appeal, and particularly those who
share with us the same principles, sincerity and transparency, may
exercise discernment with regard to reports concerning us, so that
justice may be done to our identity and dignity as we seek a stable
institutional future for our diocese within the Anglican Communion,"
they said.
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Dear Colleagues,
There have been many items to share with you this week. The latest,
and the last for some days, is that the Diocese of Recife led by
Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti is being sued for its property. They need
$10,000 by December 1 to pay legal fees to defend their property.
The American Anglican Council has pledged to match one for one funds
raised to support their legal defence fund up to $5000 raised. So far
$2500 has been raised, so with the match we are half way there.
Are you or your church in a position to assist please either with a
donation ( details below) or a pledge of funds to be sent? Funds may
be sent to
The American Anglican Council
or to Anglican Mainstream, 21 High Street, Eynsham, OX29 4HE, UK. AM
is a charity and UK Gift Aid may be claimed
or by donation on www.anglican-mainstream.net through Paypal. Click
on the Orissa appeal on the right hand side and our donation section
will appear. You may indicate that funds are for Recife Support.
I enclose the report from the Church of England Newspaper this week.
Warmly in Christ
Chris Sugden
THE ANGLICAN Episcopal Church of Brazil (IEAB) has filed a lawsuit
against the breakaway Diocese of Recife seeking to gain control of
the diocese’s properties. On Oct 30, Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti
stated that "following the example of their allies in the USA and
Canada" the IEAB has "filed a suit against the Diocese of Recife in
Pernambuco’s State court seeking to annul our juridical identity."
They are "intent on the seizure of certain key proper ties (including
the Cathedral and the Diocesan Central Office), in which for so long
we have carried out the tasks of evangelism, thus posing a direct
threat to our mission and social outreach."
The Provincial Secretary of the Brazilian Church, the Rev Francisco
da Silva declined to comment on the litigation, but documents filed
with the court allege that following the mass deposition in 2005 of
Bishop Cavalcanti and 32 members of the Recife clergy, along with the
secession of approximately 95 per cent of the church’s members, the
church proper ties should now be turned over to the IEAB.
Historically the small Anglican Church in Brazil was supported by two
doctrinally and geographically distinct groups, with the Episcopal
Church of the US suppor ting the church in Souther n Brazil and the
Church of England suppor ting the church in the Northeast of the
country. Recife followed a different path of theological development
than the southern dioceses and retained an evangelical identity while
the southern dioceses moved into the Affirm-ing Catholic camp. At the
1998 Lambeth Conference, Bishop Cavalcanti was the sole Brazilian
bishop to vote with the majority in support of Resolution 1.10 on
Human Sexuality.
Following his 2005 deposition from the IEAB, Bishop Cavalcanti and
his diocese was given shelter in the Province of the Southern Cone.
While repeated public calls for reconciliation have been made by the
leaders of the IEAB, no action has ever been taken to resolve the
dispute.
"As a diocese, we have never surrendered to the option of unlimited
compre-hensiveness, nor capitulated to the absolute relativism that
marks the post- modern liberal revisionism of the Brazilian
Province," the Recife Standing Committee said on Oct 30.
"Neither have we accepted the attempt to force us into ‘continuing
church’ status. We are part of the Anglican Communion, part of the
Global South, partners of the Networks of the Anglican Communion in
the US and Canada, partners of the Common Cause Movement, of Gafcon,
signing on to the Jerusalem Declaration and the Fellowship of
Confessing Anglicans, in permanent dialogue with all the orthodox
expressions of Anglicanism, seeking to hear the voice of the Holy
Spirit in this slow, difficult, but inevitable realignment," they
said.
However, "geographical and cultural distances often cause us to feel
isolated and make it difficult for us to be heard and understood," by
the Western churches. "We hope that Anglican leaders, and the Gafcon
Primates’ Council, to whom we appeal, and particularly those who
share with us the same principles, sincerity and transparency, may
exercise discernment with regard to reports concerning us, so that
justice may be done to our identity and dignity as we seek a stable
institutional future for our diocese within the Anglican Communion,"
they said.
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