Both cases against Bishop Marray have been dismissed, and he will step down a year earlier than planned, a decision "endorsed" by PB Rowe. 15% of the diocese's congregations will have DEPO for the remainder of his ministry.
The rural Maryland diocese is undertaking discernment requested by Presiding Bishop Rowe and supported by Church Center funding. But as Episcopal dioceses go, Easton is not very small.
The Diocese of Easton, which a decade ago was contemplating a merger with one of its neighboring dioceses, now understands itself as a resurrected small diocese.
