The Lady Presiding Bishop and the Gentleman Bishop of Pittsburgh

http://pbs1928.blogspot.com/2007/11/lady-presiding-bishop-and-gentleman.html

[The Prayer Book Society] 6 Nov 2007--Note from P.T.: This correspondence (read letters below) reveals various things, but only on one do I wish to focus here. The relation of the “Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S.A.” to give it its original and constitutional name to the dioceses of which it is made up.

Obviously the dioceses (or the colonial churches of the 1780s) existed before the PECUSA and it was their coming together that made it possible to create the PECUSA, which then self-consciously called itself “a denomination.”