Legal Opinion
Bishop and Diocese of Colorado v. Mote
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided August 22, 1983No. 80CA0406PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BERMAN, Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment granting legal title to St. Mary’s Church to the minority of its members upon a split of the parish. We reverse.
St. Mary’s Church was established as a mission within the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America (Episcopal Church) in the early 1930’s, and was incorporated under the laws of the State of Colorado in 1934. Twenty years later the mission of St. Mary’s sought and obtained parish status from the Colorado Diocese of the Episcopal Church. As a condition of the parish status, St. Mary’s unanimously adopted a resolution…
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