The pressures of time led to a number of widely supported compromises: new liturgical canons that secured protections for conservatives alongside prayer book revisions desired by progressives, and a concession to the bishops’ insistence that the State of Israel is not an “apartheid” regime.
The Rt. Rev. Russell Jacobus was a pastorally focused Anglo-Catholic who completed a lifetime of ministry in Wisconsin by serving for 19 years as Bishop of Fond du Lac.
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By Kirk Petersen
The three small-but-historic Episcopal dioceses in the state of Wisconsin, which have considered reuniting for half a century, are entering a formal...