Law Practice
Jun. 28, 2007
Appellate Court Rules Diocese Owns Property, Not the Parish
Parishes that split from their mother church can't necessarily keep their worship halls, hymnals and steeples, a state appellate panel ruled Tuesday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Parishes that split from their mother church can't necessarily keep their worship halls, hymnals and steeples, a state appellate panel ruled Tuesday.
The decision involved Newport Beach's conservative St. James Church, which broke from the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles after the national Episcopal Church in 2003 ordained an openly gay pr...
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