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TRINITY-ST. MICHAEL'S PARISH, INC. v. EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CT

(14434)

224 Conn. 797 (1993)

THE RECTOR, WARDENS AND VESTRYMEN OF TRINITY-ST. MICHAEL'S PARISH, INC., ET AL. v. THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT ET AL. THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT ET AL. v. TRINITY-ST. MICHAEL'S PARISH, INC., ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released March 2, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Narwold, with whom was William H. Bright, Jr., for the appellants (Trinity-St. Michael's Parish, Inc., et al.).

David J. Elliott, with whom were Allan B. Taylor and Alan T. Levesque, for the appellees (The Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Connecticut et al.).

PETERS, C. J., CALLAHAN, BORDEN, NORCOTT and KATZ, JS.

KATZ, J.

This appeal involves a dispute over the ownership of church property arising out of the withdrawal of a local parish from its prior affiliation with a hierarchical church organization. The issue is whether, in the absence of an express trust, the governing church documents, read "in purely secular terms,"1 impose a trust in favor of the general church on property held by a local parish.

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