San Joaquin moves to ‘assured place’
by Pat Ashworth
14 December, 2007

THE Californian diocese of San Joaquin has voted overwhelmingly to leave the Episcopal Church in the United States and affiliate with the Province of the Southern Cone.

San Joaquin, which has 47 parish and mission churches, and does not ordain women, adopted a constitutional change a year ago to enable the current move. It is the first of five expected diocesan secessions. Pittsburgh, Springfield, Quincy, and Fort Worth are at different stages of the process. the rest