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THE PARISH OF THE ADVENT v. THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF MASSACHUSETTS

426 Mass. 268 (1997)

THE PARISH OF THE ADVENT v. THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF MASSACHUSETTS & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 17, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen W. Howe & Diane C. Tillotson for the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts & others.

Rory FitzPatrick (Phoebe S. Gallagher & William O. Rizzo, with him) for the Parish of the Advent.

Dennis M. Powers, pro se.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.

MARSHALL, J.

This case concerns a protracted dispute between certain members of the corporation of the Parish of the Advent (Parish) on the one hand, and the remaining members of the corporation, members of the Parish vestry (vestry), the Parish rector, the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts (Diocese), and the Massachusetts Diocesan bishop (bishop) on the other. The dispute was triggered when a majority of the members of the Parish corporation passed a...

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