190:. Whether the diocese had the power to take that action is controversial. Those who believe it did not have this power say that the constitution and canons of the Episcopal Church do not permit dioceses to disaffiliate, that there is no provision for a diocese to relate to the Anglican Communion through an overseas province, and that the constitution and canons of the province of the Southern Cone do not permit it to have dioceses outside certain countries in South America. Those who believe it did have this power say that the diocese is the basic unit of the Anglican Communion and has the inherent power to leave a province, and that the Southern Cone claims it as a diocese under its protection in an extraordinary time of division. Any permanent change would require a change in the Southern Cone's constitution as well as the consent of the
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Schofield, was the rightful bishop. It remanded the property questions to the lower court to decide on "neutral" principles. However, the appeals court also specified that the trial record had established several points of fact that could not be re-litigated during the property trial. These included that Bishop Schofield had been inhibited from any episcopal actions in January 2008; had been removed as the Episcopal bishop in March 2008; and that Bishop Jerry Lamb was the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese. None of this affected Bishop Schofield's status as a bishop of the Anglican diocese.
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Episcopal diocese disagreed. Schofield spoke at the time as if there were a single diocese of San Joaquin, no longer a part of the Episcopal Church, of which he was the bishop. He did not recognize the legitimacy of the Episcopal Church's claim of ongoing jurisdiction. Following the vote, Schofield was deposed by the
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apart from the Church." On August 18, 2014, in a letter to the
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California court ordered the return of 27 properties held by a breakaway group to the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin, and said that dioceses cannot opt to leave the Episcopal Church. St. James Cathedral, the former diocesan offices, the Episcopal Camp and
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Anglican Diocese and individual parishes have consistently been ruled against by the courts over the years.
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