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The Seal of Confession and the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

William C. Wantland
William C. Wantland
Affiliation:
Bishop of Eau Claire, Lecturer in Canon Law at Nashotah House, former Vice-Chancellor of the Diocese of Oklahoma, and former Presiding Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court of Review of the Province of the Midwest, Episcopal Church
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An extremely important article appeared in the Winter 1995 issue of Ecclesiastical Law Journal entitled ‘An Evidential Privilege for Priest-Penitent Communications’ by Professor D. W. Elliott, outlining the problems of imputing to sacramental confessions the status of privileged communications.

Type
Research Article
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 19 , July 1996 , pp. 580 - 583
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1996

References

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2 Ibid., p. 285.

3 Ibid., p. 289.

4 Doctrine in the Church of England, SPCK, New York: MacMillan Co., 1950, p. 197.Google Scholar

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12 ‘A Bishop. Presbyter, or Deacon of this Church shall be liable to presentment and trial tor … violation of the Rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer.’

13 ‘A sentence of deposition may be imposed after final (Judgment) by a Trial Court.’