Conservative Episcopalian Parishes?

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Firstly:
  • I do not live in the USA but am well aware that the Episcopal Church is easily the most theologically liberal member church of the Anglican communion.
  • I am a faithful Catholic with no intention of leaving the Church.
I know that there are conservative ‘Episcopalian’ communities not in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Anglican communion.

But, does anyone know if there are any conservative/theologically and morally orthodox Episcopalian Parishes in the USA that are part of the Episcopal Church, out of interest?
 
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I can only speak to my experience in the US. Anglicans and Episcopalians fit under a really broad umbrella here.

I know that there are more examples, but I grew up in the Anglican Catholic Church. Very conservative. They severed all ties with Episcopalians when the latter started ordaining women.

The issue wasn’t as much about ordaining women as it was about the notion of putting theological matters up for popular vote at a convention. The ACC believed/still believes in a more orthodox approach. To this day, they don’t ordain women.

Liturgically, there are few, (if any), differences between an ACC Mass and a Rite I service with the Episcopal Church USA. Also, I want to be really careful here because it’s not always black and white. I know my share of conservative Episcopalian members of ECUSA. And while I balk at calling abortion a partisan issue, Anglicans for Life includes ECUSA members.

Does that help any?
 
I used to belong to a conservative Episcopal parish and our priest was a Jewish
convert. He was very conservative and, therefore, had many conflicts with the
very liberal bishop of the diocese back then. So he was transferred to another diocese and the remaining conservative parishoners left and formed an anglican
church which I belonged to for a month before converting to Catholicism .

There could be conservative Episcopal churches, but they might be few and far
between. They are outnumbered. I am not sure how you would locate one.
 
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But, does anyone know if there are any conservative/theologically and morally orthodox Episcopalian Parishes in the USA that are part of the Episcopal Church, out of interest?
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There probably are a few. Bishop Love of Albany seems to be the last conservative bishop whose diocese hasn’t left. So there are probably a lot in that diocese. Elsewhere the conservative parishes would be a minority I’m guessing. The most vocal conservative parishes and dioceses have already left and joined the Anglican Church in North America.

Regarding Bishop Love—he is currently under investigation by the Episcopal Church’s judicial process for not complying with the pro-LGBT agenda.
 
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Been going on for 40 years or so.

Not as long as Infinite Earths.
 
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I used to do the at at the oldest, largest Episcopal church in my area. Same sort of history on view.
 
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But, does anyone know if there are any conservative/theologically and morally orthodox Episcopalian Parishes in the USA that are part of the Episcopal Church, out of interest?
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My best guess would be if there are any left, they would be in the South. I remember when I was in the ACNA, there were a few faithful “orthodox” ECUSA bishops left, and if I recall they were fighting for Diocesan property with the leaders of the ECUSA. South Carolina might have been the diocese…been years since I’ve thought about that.
 
I’m friends with a very orthodox Episcopal priest. A few years ago he and most of his parishioners attempted to leave the ECUSA and join the Holy Catholic Church Anglican Rite. It fell through for reasons undisclosed to me. Since then the parishioners have been leaning more and more to the liberal side and he says it’s only a matter of time before he’ll be forced out. Last I heard he and the few remaining conservative parishioners were beginning talks with the Anglican ordinariate.
 
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