From Erie-
Then, growth in church membership led to a division in the early 1900s into two dioceses: Erie and Pittsburgh.
Now, with numbers declining, some members of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh are interested in studying a reunion with its northern neighbor, known today as the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania.
But the Erie-based diocese isn't in any rush to rejoin with Pittsburgh.
"It's something we might be willing to discuss in this diocese eventually," said the Right Rev. Sean W. Rowe, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Rowe said he was notified that the issue was on the agenda of Pittsburgh's Oct. 16-17 diocesan convention.
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