{"id":24715,"date":"2017-01-26T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24715"},"modified":"2017-01-26T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T21:53:46","slug":"diocese-of-fredericton-considering-multi-million-dollar-church-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-fredericton-considering-multi-million-dollar-church-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Fredericton considering multi-million dollar church sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diocese of Fredericton has a plan \u2013 or in Anglispeak jargon, a vision<\/em> \u2013 to sell millions of dollars worth of church buildings, mainly because it has become too expensive to maintain them.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the diocesan bishop, David Edwards is one of the bishops who signed a documen<\/a>t expressing disagreement with the general synod vote to approve same-sex marriages. As one of the few theologically conservative bishops still precariously clinging by his fingernails to what is left of the institutional remains of the Anglican Church of Canada, it seems rather sad that his diocese is being sucked into the sinkhole of doom created by the chaotic sexual obsessions and inclusive, yet diverse heresies of his liberal comrades.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is time for the bishop to shake the dust of his disintegrating buildings from his feet and align with a more simpatico version of Anglicanism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"The bishop of Fredericton has put forth a proposal for the possible sale and development of millions of dollars\u2019 worth of historic church property in the heart of New Brunswick\u2019s capital city.<\/p>\n

Last November, Bishop David Edwards presented a \u201cvision\u201d for Christ Church Cathedral and several nearby church properties to the congregation of the cathedral. Church officials are reported<\/a> to have met\u00a0with Fredericton city staff earlier that month to discuss the plan and ensure it fit the city\u2019s vision for the area.<\/p>\n

The proposal, available online<\/a>, includes the sale of two church properties\u2014Cathedral Memorial Hall, which contains offices and rooms used for meetings and other functions; and Odell House, the former deanery of the cathedral. It envisages the construction of a new building encompassing the existing Bishop\u2019s Court (the former residence of the bishop) and the synod office building next door. Plans for the building include institutional and possibly residential space\u2014condominiums or rental units\u2014providing income to both the diocese and the cathedral.<\/p>\n

Driving the possible changes is the high cost of maintaining the five properties currently held by the diocese and cathedral. The cathedral itself, a National Historic Site of Canada that Edwards calls the architectural \u201cjewel in the crown\u201d<\/a>\u00a0of downtown Fredericton, is nearly 170 years old. It was restored in the 1990s, but \u201cmany of its parts cry out for another multi-million dollar restoration project,\u201d the proposal says.<\/p>\n

Cathedral Memorial Hall is unused most of the time, but also needs \u201cextensive and expensive renovations.\u201d The synod office, too, needs renovations, according to the proposal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Diocese of Fredericton has a plan \u2013 or in Anglispeak jargon, a vision \u2013 to sell millions of dollars worth of church buildings, mainly because it has become too expensive to maintain them. Interestingly, the diocesan bishop, David Edwards … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2425],"tags":[2426],"class_list":["post-24715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-fredericton","tag-bishop-david-edwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}