Conservative Priest Plans to Ignore ECUSA Bishop's Attempted Discipline
By Jim Brown
September 21, 2005

(AgapePress) - "An act of arrogance by yet another revisionist bishop in the Episcopal Church" -- that is how an Anglican priest is describing a decision by the Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky to take disciplinary action against him
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Bishop Ted Gulick, Jr. of Kentucky has issued an "inhibition" -- a form of ecclesiastical discipline that temporarily prohibits a priest from performing any duties as a priest in the Episcopal Church -- against Kent Litchfield, rector of Holy Apostles Church in Elizabethtown. Gulick claims Litchfield can no longer function as a priest or conduct services in the church.

Litchfield says he plans to ignore the inhibition because he already left the Episcopal Church. He says he is now under the authority and sponsorship of conservative Bishop Frank Lyons of Bolivia. The Elizabethtown minister retired from the Episcopal denomination in June, after determining that it was driven more by liberal social issues than by the gospel.

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