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St. Edmund's Anglican Church was a parish of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America in Elm Grove, Wisconsin.〔''CANA Welcomes St. Edmund's Anglican Church, Elm Grove, Wisconsin,'' Pastoral Letter (published), Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, Herndon, Virginia: December 30, 2008, p. 2.〕 Formerly known as St. Edmund's Episcopal Church, the congregation became in 2008 the first in Wisconsin to withdraw from the Episcopal Church to join the Anglican realignment, a conservative movement of Anglicans in the United States and Canada formed primarily in opposition to the Episcopal Church's support for the ordination of non-celibate gay people.〔Annysa Johnson, "(Elm Grove church to join Episcopalian break )", ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'', December 31, 2008.〕 == History == St. Edmund's was founded 1947 by a small group of Christian laity and clergy meeting in temporary facilities in the village of Elm Grove, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Within a decade the group had raised sufficient funds to construct their own building on land donated to the congregation by members of their community on Watertown Plank Road in the village. In 1962, St. Edmund's voted to affiliate with the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and became part of the ECUSA Diocese of Milwaukee.〔''Fifty Years of St. Edmund's Church''. Elm Grove, Wisconsin: St. Edmund's Church, 2002.〕 Bishop Donald Hallock granted St. Edmund's the charter of an earlier defunct parish in his diocese dedicated to St. Edmond (Edmund), King of East Anglia. The free grant of the charter provided the 15-year-old parish with honorific roots to Christian ministry in Milwaukee dating to 1874 and Anglican historical connections stretching back almost 1,100 years. By 1976, the church was a congregation with more than 400 members.〔'Elm Grove Church rejects consultant's suggestions', The Milwaukee Journal, September 5, 1992 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19920905&id=9BIfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=giwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6763,3438851〕 In 1976 the parish vestry chose Wayne Carr Olmstead to serve as rector. Olmstead remained in the position for the next 30 years, serving both the parishioners of St. Edmund's and young men studying for the ministry from Nashotah House Seminary.〔"Parish Mourns Priest", ''Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel,'' March 14, 2006.〕 But his tenure proved controversial because of his high-church style and traditionalist theological approach, which limited the role of girls and women in church services.〔 A large number of congregants left the parish in the years following Olmstead's appointment, including a substantial number of major donors, weakening its financial base.〔"Episcopal Church Defeats Challenge to Conservatives", Milwaukee Journal, May 8, 1992 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19920508&id=JiYqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eSwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1713,8628207〕 What remained was a smaller and more conservative group of worshippers. After Olmstead died on March 13, 2006, the disconnect between the faith and practice of St. Edmund's Church, the Diocese of Milwaukee and the Episcopal Church.〔(Elm Grove church first in Wisconsin to break from Episcopalians" ), Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 31, 2008〕 In particular, the St. Edmund's congregation took issue with the Episcopal Church's acceptance of non-celibate gay people. An absolute majority of St. Edmund's Church voted in December 2008 to remain within the Anglican Communion while disassociating itself completely from the Episcopal Church. The congregation was immediately received into the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, the American mission of the Church of Nigeria, the largest Anglican province in the world.〔Wisconsin Public Radio."Lake Effect", February 2, 2009.〕 In December 2011, St. Edmund's lost a court case brought by the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee, and a judge ruled the parishioners must relinquish all church property and vacate the church building.〔 They did so in January 2012, although the diocese accused the departing members of vandalizing the altar with Hebrew letters that approximated the words "God no longer lives here."〔Peter Bukowski. "(Diocese says Elm Grove church's altar vandalized by evicted group )", ''Elm Grove Now'', February 15, 2012.〕 Several graves on the church grounds were transferred elsewhere. On January 26, 2014, the former St. Edmund's congregation was relaunched and renamed Holy Cross Anglican Church, CANA. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Edmund's Anglican Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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