From the Dallas Morning News-Fort Worth-area congregations remaining loyal to the Episcopal Church officially reorganized as a diocese Saturday, electing a provisional bishop and other leaders.
Present for the packed special meeting was the Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the 2 million-member Episcopal Church.
She declared that the diocese "is again a full part of the Episcopal Church."
In November, a large majority of clergy and lay delegates – led by Bishop Jack Iker – voted to withdraw the diocese from the Episcopal Church and realign with a more conservative, Argentina-based province of the Anglican Communion.
This was the fourth time since 2007 that a U.S. diocese had pulled out, insisting that the denomination had departed from orthodox faith on homosexuality and other issues.
But a handful of Fort Worth-area churches – including the large, influential All Saints' Episcopal Church of Fort Worth – have chosen to remain with the denomination.
Ten other churches have split, with minority contingents of members loyal to the Episcopal Church now worshipping separately.
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