Nine Episcopal Church of Sudan or ECS pastors who resigned one year ago and were reinstated by the leading archbishop are stranded because the dismissal letter barred them from any ECS diocese and they joined the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches.
ECS Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul visited Yambio last December and asked the nine pastors to return to the Church, Anisa Radio reported.Archbishop Deng appointed a transitional body headed by Bishop Justin Badi Arama as caretaker and Pastor Samuel Borete as Vicar General to run the administration.
Bishop Peter Munde Yakobo Ð whose administration was contested by the nine pastors Ð went for a one-year sabbatical leave to Kampala, Uganda.
Bishop Munde told Anisa Radio that he was happy to receive the offer from Archbishop Deng because he wanted to write a book on the centenary of the ECS in Western Equatoria.
Reverend Jackson Bullen, one of the nine stranded pastors, said the resolution came very late because they distributed copies of their complaints to the bishop and the Archbishop in March 2012 and Bishop Munde signed their dismissals.
Bishop Munde admitted his mistakes and asked the pastors to reconcile and return to the ECS communion.