Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina v. Episcopal Church

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided August 2, 2017No. Appellate Case No. 2015-000622; Opinion No. 27731Published

1Concurrence

JUSTICE HEARN:

I concur fully with Acting Justice Pleicones’s thorough and well-reasoned lead opinion, but write separately because of the magnitude of this case and its far-reaching effects not only on the Episcopal Church (“the National Church”) but also all other hierarchical religious organizations.12

The primary issue before the Court is which of two competing dioceses is the true Episcopal diocese in the lower half of South Carolina and thus has the right to control the property at issue which consists of thirty-six parish churches and Camp Saint Christopher on Seabrook Island. Because…

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