[ikka]

Question: who ends up with the property if there is a split?

[altura]

As I understand it (and remember, I've only been an Episcopalian for 31 years), the diocese is the biggie.

All the dioceses are under the loose direction (pun intended) of the national church and the presiding Bishop, but they are (sort of) independent.

If an entire diocese should decide to withdraw from the current national church organization, all the churches within that diocese would have to go along, or lose all their church property.

I don't believe individual churches own a thing if they decide to leave ... even the dishtowels I recently gave to the Altar Guild.

Frankly, I am hoping that the Dallas Diocese does leave. The line has to be drawn somewhere.