From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette-
The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh will resume ministry in three communities that had lacked an Episcopal parish at least since the diocese split in 2008.
"Just as the Diocese of Pittsburgh has been rebuilding over the last few years, we are now turning our attention to rebuilding congregations in the areas where Episcopalians have been underserved," Episcopal Bishop Kenneth Price Jr. said.
Services are scheduled to start Sunday at St. James Episcopal Church in Penn Hills, on July 17 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Barnesboro, Cambria County, and later this summer at St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Marshall. If all three are accepted at the diocesan convention this fall, the diocese will have 32 parishes. The majority of parishes in the original diocese left the denomination in 2008 and are now part of the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh. All three of these buildings were vacated by congregations that are now Anglican, and the Episcopal diocese owns the property.
The Barnesboro parish had closed in a merger several years before the split, and the merged parish joined the Anglican diocese. The Warrendale parish moved into a formerly Catholic church last year, and the congregation of St. James announced this week that it was turning its building over to the Episcopal diocese and would rent space nearby.
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