Two bishops (Jane Holmes Dixon and Clifton Daniel III) cleared (of committing offenses under canon law).New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (ENS) -- Two bishops of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, , Jane Holmes Dixon Jane Holmes Dixon is a former American Episcopalian bishop. She served as Bishop of Washington pro tempore from 2001 to June 2002 in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. Previously, she had served as Bishop Suffragan from 1986 to 2001. of Washington and Clifton Daniel III The Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel III is the residing Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina. He is the seventh bishop to serve the diocese. Biography Education Bishop Daniel was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on July 4, 1947. of East Carolina, have been found innocent of charges that they committed offenses under canon law. The case of Bishop Dixon involved a dispute she had with a parish in Accokeek, Md. which hired a priest who refused to recognize Bishop Dixon's authority because she was a woman. The complaint against Bishop Daniel concerned his response to a number of complaints of clergy misconduct alleged against the Rev. William B. Trimble, Jr. of Wilmington, N.C. |
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