At first glance, it's hard to see how provision has been made for the Bishop Schofield and his flock. The Constitution requires approval of the Anglican Consultative Council for its amendment:

"For any changes or amendment to this Constitution, the following procedure is to be used:
4.1 Any projected change should be sent by a Member Diocese to the Executive Council,
which is charged to circulate it within the Dioceses not less than three months prior the
next meeting of the Provincial Synod.
4.2 The proposed change must be accepted as a proposition by a two-thirds vote of the
Provincial Synod.
4.3 The proposed change shall then be submitted to the Anglican Consultative Council for
consideration and then to each Diocesan Synod for approval.
4.4 The Diocesan Synods shall send a written notice of their approval to the Presiding
Bishop who shall then inform them of the results. If approved unanimously by the
Member Dioceses, the approved proposed amendment is placed into force."

And the Constitution earlier specifies geographic boundaries:

"2. MEMBERSHIP
The Anglican Church of the Southern Cone, which shall henceforth be called The Province, is
composed of the Anglican Dioceses that exist or which may be formed in the Republics of
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay and which voluntary declare themselves
as integral Diocesan members of the Province."

If the translation is correct in saying "and which" rather than "or which", and if the ACC hasn't approved extra-territoriality (as I doubt it has), then the USA and Canada would seem to be unconstitutional.

Well, if the C&C of the Southern Cone clearly allow a diocese to pick up & move wherever it wants whenever it wants, that would certainly "would provide Fort Worth with “greater self-determination” than it currently has under The Episcopal Church…"

Suggestion to Bishop Venables -- if you want to know how the Diocese of Ft. Worth will act towards you, see how they have acted in the past.

Note how the csnons make reference to the thirty nine articles, and that liturgical practice should be in conformity to Anglican faith and order.

A determined protestant could bring a prosecution against Schofled and Iker for allowing in their diocese:

1) Invocation of Saints,
2) The Sacrifice of the Mass
3) Worship of the consecrated elements
4) reservation of the Sacrament

All condemened in the 39 articles!

The SC of the Diocese of FW acknowledges that the Canons and Constitution of The Episcopal Church prevent it from leaving. In a deft avoidance of logic, the SC then recommends that the Diocese go ahead, do the impossible, leave The Episcopal Church and become "part" of a foreign church. The apparent rationale is that the foreign church will allow the Diocese more freedom to depart that foreign church whenever it wants to leave in the future, even though the Diocese could never join the foreign church in the first place.

They just don't want to admit that they are a bunch of ratbag conservatives who purport to be in fellowship with something that they are not so they can tear apart something that they were meant to be in.

Bickerers and squabblers.

The kind who abusively repress one spouse, or have a series of spouses who alway break up because it was the "other partner's" fault.

They have no more fellowship, commitment or camaderie with their new bed partners than their previous. They are simply pretending it is "true love" so they don't have to admit they are womanizing philanderers.

Harsh words?

Jeremiah 2:23-29 is enough to make any female "swoon unconditionally" after their divine soul mate. “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there, a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her. Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It’s no use! I love foreign gods,and I must go after them.’ As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced—they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets. They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’"

Let Jesus the one who promised gentleness to the Daughter of Zion save you from his own glory. After all, we all know that if she helped out it would be merely proving she is a she-donkey in heat and unable to control her lusts.

One cannot avoid wondering what the particular freedoms that Iker, say, envisions for himself and his diocese. I put it that way, advisedly, given the reports coming out of the ground levels of believer life in FTW.

Then I recall the campaign battle plan, already published. Affiliating with Southern Cone is simply one step in a longer strategy. Either the split will run right through, with conservative iterations of puritannical-anglocath Anglicanism (is there an Anglican Opus Dei waiting in the wings somewhere?) hybrids replacing all the existing provinces, up to and including the so-called Global North; or at times one gets a sense of the extreme conservative vision that all will be turned to worship this longing for utter certainty that denies the real ways that living with doubts and open-endedness nourishes and enlivens a contemporary faith, while so far the certainties urged upon us clearly narrow faith to only the most puritannical angels dancing on conservative pinheads by weaponizing it.

Those who depended upon God's grace in Jesus incarnate and Risen Lord, will now depend upon laws and doctrines.

One nice thing about belonging to the Southern Cone might be that when you next take leave, it will have little inclination or legal capacity to sue you in court for the property you brought with you after you and your gang got done with that former Home Invasion of TEC. (But will the USA courts pronounce the Home Invasion successful? Stay tuned?)

Ah the spoils of schism. Ah the glamour of using Anglican hot button controversies as political-power wedge issues. Divide, conquer. Is this the much vaunted faith apostolic, once delivered to the real communion of saints, some of whom are indeed still living? Can we hear? I AM Iker, I have spoken, I put a period where God in Jesus puts commas, and I have a destiny which does not include the likes of you all?

"a bunch of ratbag conservatives who purport to be in fellowship with something that they are not so they can tear apart something that they were meant to be in."

Thanks, Cheryl. I love the phrasing!

Cannons & Constitution of Province of Southern Cone

To add to the observations of Prior Aelred, article 2.3 of the C&C of the SC stipulate that a "Bishop" may resign(retire) at age 65 but must resign by age 68. Schofield will be age 70 in October of this year (2008), well past the manditory retirement age for bishops in the SC. A post at another blog site claimed that Venerables reached an agreement with Schofield that he could serve on as bishop, of course setting aside the C&C of the SC. So how faithful will Venerables & his associates be viz-a-viz the "Covenant" or any other documents that warrant behavior.