The Anglican parish worshiping at Grace Church downtown for the past two years has a new name, new corporate identity, a future home and a hopeful attitude.
On Palm Sunday and Easter, the 1,200-member parish will worship at 2760 Fieldstone Road, a vacant building in the Mountain Shadows area that formerly housed the Renaissance Academy, a private school.
On Wednesday, the vestry chose a new name, St. George's Anglican Church, after a judge on Tuesday ordered that the parish must not only vacate the Gothic church at 631 N. Tejon St. but also no longer call itself Grace Church & St. Stephen's.
The vestry filed articles of incorporation for the new parish on Thursday.
"This is liberating for us," said Alan R. Crippen II, spokesman and a priest at St. George's. "At our vestry meeting (Wednesday), there was some sadness and tears, but mostly there was optimism," he said. "It was a very positive meeting."
Two years ago the two parishes - Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal and Grace Church & St. Stephen's, which is now St. George's - split when the vestry of Grace Church, led by the Rev. Donald Armstrong, elected to leave the Episcopal Church and join the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, or CANA.
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