When Suffragan Bishop Jean Dixon of Washington gave as reason for her going to Anglo-Catholic parishes "because we are a community of faith which gathers around the bishop [TLC, March 31]," she is in error. She is not The Bishop. She wears the vestments of a bishop and has the title but not the authority. Canon law gives the diocesan as the ecclesiastical authority, who is the only symbol of the community of faith, and the only person who can go into an Episcopal Church uninvited. She is absolutely correct. The whole issue is a power struggle, and people like her and Bishop Haines are willing to destroy the Episcopal Church to prove they are now in charge.

(The Rev. Canon) Philip E. Weeks

Maitland, Fla.