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FRANZEN v. POULOS

Nos. 91-2755, 91-2785.

604 So.2d 1260 (1992)

Reverend Lavern G. FRANZEN, the Florida Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Inc., Raymond Adams, et al., Appellants, v. Reverend George E. POULOS, Jr., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

September 8, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rahdert & Anderson, and George K. Rahdert, and Kenneth A. Guckenberger, St. Petersburg, Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Strickroot, and John R. Kelso, Stephens, Lynn, Klein & McNicholas, Miami, for appellants.

R. Stuart Huff, Coral Gables, for appellee.

Before FERGUSON, JORGENSON and COPE, JJ.

COPE, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order entering a temporary injunction in a dispute regarding internal church governance in a hierarchical church. We reverse.

Reverend George E. Poulos, Jr., was the minister of Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Church is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a national church body. The national church is hierarchically organized. It is divided into regions, referred to as Synods, each...

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