Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina
in Charleston, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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The Diocese of South Carolina is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America. The diocese covers an area of 24 counties in the eastern part of the state of South Carolina. In 2015, it had 52 parishes with 22,953 members. The see city is Charleston, home to the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul and diocesan headquarters.Established in 1785, the diocese was one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States. The diocese originally covered the entire state of South Carolina, but the western part of the state became the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina in 1922. After a long period of conflict over theology and authority within the Episcopal Church, the diocese withdrew from the Episcopal Church in 2012. The diocesan convention voted to affiliate with the Anglican Church in North America in March 2017, and the diocese was officially admitted into the larger church on June 27, 2017.
After the diocese withdrew from the Episcopal Church in 2012, parishes and members who wished to remain in the Episcopal Church organized a continuing diocese under the name Episcopal Church in South Carolina. Both the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina and the Episcopal Church in South Carolina claim to be the legitimate successor to the pre-schism diocese, and both claim ownership of diocesan property including church buildings. On February 3, 2015, a South Carolina judge ruled that the departing diocese was legally entitled to the property and use of the name "Diocese of South Carolina." On August 2, 2017, the South Carolina Supreme Court held in a split decision that 29 of the parishes in the lawsuit and the St. Christopher Camp and Conference Center are the property of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina and must be returned, but that the 7 remaining parish properties are owned by the Diocese of South Carolina. The S.C. Supreme Court's decision did not answer the question of who owns the use of the name "Diocese in South Carolina," and other associated marks because one justice did not participate in that portion of the decision. Because the remaining four justices split 2-2, the lower court ruling remains in effect on that issue. Litigation is ongoing.
