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Alicia Chang Associated Press
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named a married former Episcopal bishop Sunday to head the first U.S. organizational structure for disaffected Anglicans and Episcopalians who want to join the Catholic Church.
The Rev. Jeffrey Neil Steenson, a father of three and Catholic convert, will lead the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, the equivalent of a diocese, that will be based in Houston, Texas, but will operate nationally.
The Vatican created the first such ordinariate in Britain last year. Other ordinariates are being considered in Australia and Canada.
Steenson stepped down in 2007 as the Episcopal bishop of Rio Grande, in Albuquerque, N.M., after the Episcopal Church elected the first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Steenson had said he was “deeply troubled” about the direction of the U.S. denomination and he described the Catholic Church as the “true home of Anglicanism.”
The Episcopal Church is the U.S. Anglican body in the United States.
Under the pope’s plan, Anglicans who become Catholic will be allowed to keep some of their heritage in liturgy and other areas. Married Anglican priests who convert can stay married and be ordained in the Catholic Church, an exception to the Vatican’s celibacy rule. Married Anglican bishops, however, cannot retain that position, and would serve as priests. More than 100 Anglican clergy have applied to become priests in the U.S. ordinariate.
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| The Spokane and Eastern Trust Company building in 1930, a year before it was razed. |
See also SPOKANE AND EASTERN TRUST COMPANY (in this blog) for additional pictures and articles from 1936 and 1952, and a Cousin Sam family connection.
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