The church bought it for $5.5 million, claiming the building would be used as a permanent rectory for future leaders of the church, but is selling it after Cooper retired in February.
Cooper's replacement, the Rev. William Lupfer, has been given a 2,300-square-foot Battery Park City apartment with three terraces and riverfront views, according to the post. The rent was advertised at $15,000 a month.
Read moreKnudsen, who has roots in Maryland, will be Sutton's second-in-command until the diocese selects a long-term replacement for Cook, who resigned as bishop suffragan of Maryland on May 1.
Cook, 58, faces charges including manslaughter, homicide by a motor vehicle while impaired, leaving the scene of a fatal accident, drunken driving and texting while driving in the Dec. 27 death of Thomas Palermo. She has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to return to court next month.
Read moreMorgan also will be placed on probation for 10 years after he gets out of prison and will be on the state sex offender registry for the remainder of his life.
Morgan's female victim was under 12 years of age at the time of the crime, Collins said. She did not attend the sentencing but knew it was taking place, the prosecutor said.
The victim disclosed the abuse to a school counselor, which prompted the investigation that led to Morgan's arrest in October 2014.
Read moreIn North Carolina, a prayer for judgment is typically reserved for traffic violations or minor misdemeanors. It allows a defendant to plead guilty to a crime without the plea entered against them. When granted a prayer for judgment the recipient need only pay court costs.
In North Carolina a prayer for judgment counts as a conviction for the prosecutor but in general does not count as a conviction against the defendant.
Read moreThe people in the mountains are cut off from aids and supply due to severe damage of the roads and mountain tracks. We thank God for brave souls like young Pastor Beg who trekked the mountains in the last 4 days, despite knowing the dangers, to check on the well-being of his Tamang people. Death toll has gone beyond 6,200 as of this morning, and with more than 20,000 injured, many more thousands are still unaccounted for.
Read moreBut for several years, diocesan conventions have taken place at other sites around the diocese. That means even some of the most active Episcopalians in Connecticut never cross the threshold of the cathedral and do not feel much attachment to it. They're now wondering whether it's still needed or if Christ Church should revert to parish status, which had been its demarcation for 124 years before becoming a cathedral.
Read moreHeld at the St. Christopher Camp and Conference Center in South Carolina, the meeting was overseen by South Carolina Diocese Bishop Mark Lawrence and ACNA Archbishop Foley Beach.
"The Diocese of South Carolina has been in the process for some time of discerning what its permanent affiliation should be among the Provinces of the Anglican Communion," the Rev. Jim Lewis, canon to the ordinary and an attendee of the meeting, told The Christian Post.
Read moreAccording to Cook's Sentence of Deposition, the former second-ranking official in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland shall be "deprived of the right to exercise the gifts and spiritual authority of God's word and sacraments conferred at ordination."
Read moreRevelation 7:9-10 I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice,"Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
From Ferguson to North Charleston to Baltimore
Read more"My Christian faith coexists happily with the largely Muslim culture in which I grew up" in the Middle East, stated counterfactually Grace Said while introducing the April 7 National Cathedral presentation "An Introduction of Islam in the U.S." Said, sister of the late leftist academic and Arab/Islam apologist Edward Said, set the tone for an event before a conference hall audience of about 60 that glossed over the troubling Islamist and anti-Israel aspects of its participants.
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