[Cookie123]

About the only way to get your name off most parish registers is to officially request a transfer of your letter to another Episcopal Church. If you just stop going altogether, or join another denomination, in all likelihood your name may well remain on the parish registry - oftentimes for decades. It can therefore be counted when the parish sends it's membership stats to the diocese.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

You are right. I am probably still on the Methodist rolls.

[AnAmericanMother]

I sent them a letter when we became Catholic, asking them to remove us from the parish.

But I bet we're still on the rolls, 'cause we didn't transfer our letters. I don't know of any way to CANCEL your letters!

[GratianGasparri]

About the only way to get your name off most parish registers is to officially request a transfer of your letter to another Episcopal Church. If you just stop going altogether, or join another denomination, in all likelihood your name may well remain on the parish registry - oftentimes for decades. It can therefore be counted when the parish sends it's membership stats to the diocese.

I heard this from a friend of mine who was at one time studying to be an Episcopalian priest. Near the end of her seminary training, she ended up poping over some morality issue, and has been working for a Catholic diocese ever since as she debates whether to marry or become a nun. Despite all this, she swears that she had never been able to get her name removed from the ECUSA registers...