Neighboring congregations support exiled church’s return to Newport Beach campus

LAGUNA HILLS — Members of neighboring Episcopal congregations said during an emotional public forum Saturday morning that they would like to see St. James the Great Episcopal Church return to the building on Via Lido in Newport Beach.
Members of the 72-year-old Newport Beach congregation have managed to stay and worship together in the last three years, since June 2015, when they were evicted by then-Bishop J. Jon Bruno, who determined the church wasn’t financially viable, and decide