One of the parishes, All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, is moving to the chapel at All Saints’ Episcopal School. Like the rest of the dozen-year dispute, that’s been “a fairly complicated, fraught process,” said Katie Sherrod, the Episcopal diocese’s director of communications. Since February, the Fort Worth Episcopalians and members of the breakaway group have been going through the buildings in preparation of the transfer. Most congregations that remained in The Episcopal Church found new places to worship after the split, but six congregations in Fort Worth, Hillsboro and Wichita Falls, Texas, remained in their buildings. The breakaway congregations continued to occupy their buildings.
In 2008, a majority of clergy and lay leaders in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth voted to leave The Episcopal Church over disagreements about the ordination of women and LGBTQ people. The court’s decision not to hear the case settled what had been a 12-year legal battle. Supreme Court in February declined to hear an appeal by The Episcopal Church’s Fort Worth-area diocese of a state court ruling, leaving more than $100 million of diocesan property in the hands of the ACNA’s Diocese of Fort Worth. on April 19 to vacate their buildings after being evicted by a breakaway group affiliated with the Anglican Church in North America, or ACNA. Six congregations in what is now known as the Episcopal Church in North Texas have until 11:59 p.m. The congregation of All Saints’ Episcopal Church gathers for Sunday worship in Fort Worth, Texas, before the coronavirus pandemic forced the suspension of large in-person gatherings.
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