Mediation Between Episcopal Church and Breakaway Diocese Over $500M Worth of Property Delayed

A mediation process between The Episcopal Church and a South Carolina-based diocese that broke away from the denomination has been delayed until December.

For the past few years, The Episcopal Church, its local chapter The Episcopal Church in South Carolina, and The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina have been in litigation over church properties estimated at $500 million in value.

Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. decided Tuesday morning to recess the mediation until Dec. 4-5, according to a brief post on the Episcopal Church in South Carolina’s website.

Holly Votaw, spokesperson for TECSC, told The Christian Post that since the mediation talks were confidential in nature, “no further comment will be made about the recess.”

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Votaw did direct CP to a pastoral letter from TECSC Bishop the Rt. Rev. Gladstone B. Adams III sent on Nov. 1, which called on Episcopalians to hold “all parties at the table in prayer.”

“The form and content is up to you, but my prayer will be that everyone present will…