At issue is who has the right to make decisions for the diocese, an Indiana nonprofit corporation with 501 (C)(3) tax-exempt status, and who owns the diocesan properties and governs the other entities affiliated with it, which includes 7,000 persons, a cathedral, as well as 80 parishes.

The Episcopal Church is in trouble, big trouble. It is declining faster than a street dog jumping off a meat wagon to chase a rat outside an Episcopal cathedral. The drop between 2021 and 2022 was the largest on record - 5.6%. While average Sunday attendance (ASA) "declined dramatically" during the pandemic in 2020-2021, in 2022 the church saw a brief uptick to 372,952. The age of an average Episcopalian is 69. Membership has gone from 3.4 million in 1960 to 1.58 million in 2022.

Using Ramadan and Easter as high holy days for a ceasefire, the Christian leaders naively believe that Palestinians of good will, will see the light, sit down with their Israeli brothers and sisters, and negotiate a peace that will last until the next genocidal attack on Jews.

Under the guise of peace, these leaders are promoting war and the continued slaughter of innocents, writes Eugene Korn, an ethicist living in Israel.

By 2024 it had dropped by another 29,007 or 30.3%. The overall drop from 1999 to the present year revealed a whopping 107,481 or 62% drop.

MEMBERSHIP figures also took a hit. In 1999 the denomination claimed 686,362 members. By 2024 that figure had dropped to 294,931 a drop of 391,143 or 57 %!

CONGREGATION numbers also took a hit. The Canadian Church in 1999 had 2,836 congregations. By 2024 that figure had declined to 1,498 a drop of 1,338 or 47%.