Diocese of Texas’ ranking among domestic dioceses in terms of percent of income shared with ECUSA: 93rd out of 100
ECUSA domestic diocese that ranks last in reported income: Western Kansas ($189,067)
Diocese of Western Kansas’ ranking among domestic dioceses in terms of percent of income shared with ECUSA: 14th out of 100 (Note: Navajoland Area Mission did not report income and also gave ECUSA nothing.)
The five domestic dioceses which report no women clergy: Fort Worth, Quincy and San Joaquin (whose bishops will not ordain women), plus Oklahoma and Eau Claire, who deploy none.
The six domestic dioceses that report more than one-third of their parishes led by women clergy:
Navajoland (50 percent), Eastern Oregon (45.5 percent), Idaho (42.9 percent), Iowa (38.5 percent), North Dakota (36.4 percent) and Vermont (35.6 percent)
Domestic diocese that deploys the largest number of women clergy:
Massachusetts (156 or 29.7 percent)
Portion of Episcopal congregations that is female: 69 percent (according to a report by Kirk Hardaway prepared for ECUSA’s Office of Congregational Development in 2002)
First woman ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion: Florence Li Tim-O (She was ordained by Bishop R. O. Hall In Hong Kong for service in Japanese-occupied Macao during World War II.)
Country in Africa with the most Anglicans: Nigeria (17 million, 23 percent of all Anglicans in the world, based on 1997 data)
Who is the supreme interpreter of the resolutions of ECUSA’s General Convention?
The General Convention itself. The Episcopal Church has no supreme court. The two courts for the trial of a bishop have authority to interpret only those canons related to the trial. Executive Council is empowered to act on behalf of General Convention between conventions.
In the Jan/Feb 2003 issue, a proofing error lead to a misidentification of the IRD (Institute for Religion and Democracy) as both a conservative and liberal think-tank and activist organization. The IRD is a think-tank and activist organization of political and religious conservatives. The IDS (Institute for Democratic Studies), on the other hand, is a think-tank and activist organization of political religious liberals.
In the December 2002 installment of Louie’s Index, Costa Rica was identified as a Central American diocese that had never been part of the Episcopal Church USA. However, Costa Rica was a diocese of ECUSA until 1976, when the bishop (Tony Ramos) submitted his resignation to the House of Bishops and the World Mission standing commission recommended extra-provincial status for the diocese.
Witness contributing editor Louie Crew, founder of Integrity and a longtime Episcopal Church leader
(he currently sits on the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council and the Diocese of Newark’s deputation to General Convention 2003) is a well-known collector and disseminator of statistics
and little-known facts about the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion. His website is www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew.