There was discussion a while back on Brit Hume's program on FNC about one of these parishes in Northern Virginia, which Fred Barnes is a member of...apparently the local parish paid for everything they have, but it's probably one the diocese is trying to confiscate.
It (The Falls Church) is .
The church preexists the diocese.In fact, it was before there was an Episcopal church.
The earlier contending that it is cut and dried are quite wrong.