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Article: Last rites: such are the Episcopal Church's divisions that a $2.2-million robbery is not the greatest of its worries.
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- National Review
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- July 31, 1995
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WITH the $2.2 million she embezzled from the Episcopal Church, Ellen Cooke purchased a 23-acre vacation farm, a large home, a necklace from Tiffany's, and pretty much everything else she wanted. Her benefactions included gifts of $88,000 to the parish her husband served as rector. When she resigned last January as the church's national treasurer, Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning lauded her ``prudent and wise fiscal management.'' In other church news, the 61-year-old Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts recently shot himself to death. Investigation disclosed that the bishop, David Johnson, who was married, had a lady friend on the side.
Speculation centered on his ...