Episcopal Church reinstates Diocese head after abuse cover-up case - KansasCity.com
Religion • August 2010 • Views: 603
Nearly three years after the Episcopal Church suspended him for covering up his brother’s sexual abuse of a minor girl, Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr. has been restored as head of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
In a ruling released Thursday, a church appeals panel reversed a lower church court’s 2008 order that Bennison be defrocked and permanently removed from the helm of the 55,000-member diocese, comprising Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware, and Chester Counties.