American diocese approves split from Episcopal Church
by Lillian Kwon, Christian Today US Correspondent
Posted: Sunday, November 4, 2007

Despite a warning from the head of The Episcopal Church, members of the American Diocese of Pittsburgh voted overwhelmingly Friday to leave the national church.

Clergy members and lay people voted 227 to 82 to approve constitutional amendments, taking the first step in separating from The Episcopal Church, which the diocese says has drifted from Scripture.

It was the first of two vote approvals needed for the diocese to remove itself from the national church and realign with a conservative province in the worldwide Anglican Communion. The Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of Anglicanism. the rest