Episcopalians & American Anglicans Split

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[VirtueOnline] 21 Nov 2008--Last weekend three events provided snapshots of the now permanent split between Episcopalians and American Anglicans who separated themselves from The Episcopal Church, once the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

First, by a 4 to 1 vote, delegates of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth became the fourth diocese to abandon the The Episcopal Church (TEC), and to vote, as Bishop Jack Iker put it, "as a matter of conscience and conviction, to align ourselves with an Orthodox Province... The Anglican Province of the Southern Cone," based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Recently, the Dioceses of Pittsburgh and Quincy (IL), also voted overwhelmingly for a similar split and realignment. A year earlier, the Diocese of San Joaquin based in Fresno, CA, was the first to leave TEC for the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.