It's been more than 10 years since the conservative portions of various Episcopal dioceses began the Great Split-Off. That is, they left dioceses – some of which had been around since the 18th century – to form a new entity, the Anglican Church in North America, that billed itself as the truest representation of Anglicanism on the North American continent.
This didn't go over too well with The Episcopal Church (TEC), as you may imagine, and many were the lawsuits filed by TEC leaders to keep their property, most of which they won. I covered churches in northern Virginia that lost everything in this battle. One church lost property they had already bought on which to build a new sanctuary. Another church lost millions of dollars in property that dated back to colonial times.
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