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ST. MARY OF EGYPT ORTHODOX v. TOWNSEND

No. A99A1838.

532 S.E.2d 731 (2000)

243 Ga. App. 188

ST. MARY OF EGYPT ORTHODOX CHURCH, INC. et al. v. TOWNSEND.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Certiorari Denied September 8, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christie, Toreno & Hatcher, Carrie L. Christie, Vincent A. Toreno, E.R. Lanier, Atlanta, for appellants.

Drew, Eckl & Farnham, W. Wray Eckl, Anne M. Landrum, Atlanta, for appellee.

SMITH, Judge.

In this case, transferred from the Supreme Court of Georgia, we revisit the perennial question of the extent to which the courts of this state may address matters in dispute within a church or ecclesiastical body. Here, doctrinal disputes led an archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America ("OCA") to suspend Father John Townsend, the rector of St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church of the Diocese of the South of the Orthodox Church in America, Inc. ("St.Mary...

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