There've been some quite radical developments in the dispute following yesterday's announcement that the episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania Charles E. Bennison had proceeded to the canonical defrocking of Rev. David L. Moyer, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont for "abandoning the communion of the church."



... the feud took an international turn yesterday when Father Moyer revealed that the Rev. Charles Carey, archbishop of Canterbury and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican communion, had made him a priest in the Church of England just days ago.



"It keeps me a priest in good standing in the eyes of the head of the Anglican communion," Father Moyer, 51, said in a telephone interview.



The Rev. Robert Duncan, bishop of Pittsburgh, also issued a statement condemning the defrocking as invalid and "due-process denying." He made Father Moyer a priest of the Pittsburgh diocese.





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