Reply #11: Two Episcopal Congregations Vote to Split From U.S. Church

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Two Episcopal Congregations Vote to Split From U.S. Church

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/17/AR2006121700289_pf.html

By Bill Turque and Michelle Boorstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, December 17, 2006; 1:38 PM

Officials at The Falls Church in Falls Church and Truro Church in Fairfax City announced the results of the week-long vote following their worship services this morning. Their leadership has been at the forefront of a national conservative movement that has been alienated from the Episcopal Church, the U.S. wing of the worldwide Anglican Communion, since the installation of a gay bishop in New Hampshire in 2003.

At both congregations, more than 90 percent of the members voted to split from the U.S. church and to retain their church property.