Citing theological differences with the group's national leaders, more than 100 congregations have left the Episcopal Church USA in the last six months. St. Anne's left the Episcopal Church USA and its local diocese in January and St. John's in Fallbrook left last month.

2. The Federation will seek to maintain the Patronage of orthodox Primates in the Anglican Communion. Such patronage will be for the purpose of expanding fellowship with those in the Anglican Communion and working in concert with the godly projects and programs of the Archbishops primarily in the Global South.

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FACA has five tasks:

"So often we preach faith, but we live institutionally," Mr. Minns said. "Right now, we must practice what we preach."

The parish is walking a tightrope. Virginia Bishop Peter J. Lee, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, has called Mr. Minns' election "an affront," adding that it would be "impossible" for Mr. Minns to act simultaneously as rector of Truro and as a bishop for the Nigerian church's Convocation of Anglican Churches in North America (CANA).

Despite all efforts to deter them, after “defiantly and radically violating key doctrinal elements of Anglicanism and their own ordination and consecration vows, leaders of the U.S. province have caused us to be suspended from the communion’s operational affairs,” a LEAC press release said.