NEW YORK, NY: Was Episcopal Church COO placed on Administrative Leave over Bugging Incident at Executive Council?

UNITED STATES
Virtue Online

By David W. Virtue DD
www.virtueonline.org
December 12, 2015

The Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, Michael Curry, has suspended his right hand man, COO Bishop Stacey Sauls, and placed him on administrative leave along with two other senior church officers over what is being described as “misconduct in carrying out their duties as members of senior management of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society.” The other two suspended officers are Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Director of Mission Samuel McDonald, and Director of Public Engagement Alex Baumgarten.

No one will give information about the exact nature of the incident. However, VOL and IRD writer Jeff Walton believe it might have something to do with the security tapes that were found by General Convention Executive Officer and Executive Council Secretary Canon Michael Barlowe at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum…