From California (Diocese of San Joaquin)-St. Paul's Anglican Parish in Bakersfield is looking for a new home following a courtroom decision that hands control of its church property back to the Episcopal Church.
The Anglicans are on the move following a little-noticed ruling in February that parishioners in two of several breakaway Kern churches lacked the authority to disaffiliate from the Episcopal Church.
Even though Anglicans at St. Paul's and St. Michael's Anglican Church in Ridgecrest both held their own titles to church property, Kern County Superior Court Judge Sidney P. Chapin ruled that they had to vacate.
His ruling essentially dismissed the permission a former Episcopal bishop granted them to secede, saying he overstepped his authority in supporting their move to disaffiliate.
A number of other Anglican churches aren't affected, pending the outcome of a different case in Fresno.
The legal battles are part of a larger schism that led congregations in the San Joaquin Valley and across the country to leave the Episcopal Church.
More here-
http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x1891153851/Episcopal-Church-regains-control-of-two-buildings-some-Anglicans-must-move
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