MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun
By Jonathan Pitts
The Baltimore Sun
Heather Elizabeth Cook, the Episcopal bishop accused of drunk driving and fatally striking a bicyclist in December, has resigned as bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Maryland, the diocese announced Friday
In a separate action, Cook has also reached an accord with the national church that terminates her right to act as a priest, officials said.
Cook, 58, tendered her resignation by letter this week, and Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton and the diocese standing committee — the church’s equivalent of a board of trustees — accepted it Friday.
The standing committee asked for Cook’s resignation in January.
Cook and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the national church’s top official, have reached a separate accord under the church’s disciplinary code known as a “sentence of disposition,” according to a statement Jefferts Schori’s office released Friday.
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