lynching victim Ephraim Grizzard. List of parishes All Saints, Smyrna Calvary Church, Cumberland Furnace Christ Church, Alto Christ Church, Tracy City Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville< Church of Our Savior, Gallatin Church of the Advent, Nashville Church of the Epiphany, Lebanon Church of the Epiphany, Sherwood Church of the Good Shepherd, Brentwood Church of the Holy Comforter, Monteagle Church of the Holy Cross, Murfreesboro Church of the Holy Spirit, Nashville Church of the Messiah, Pulaski Church of the Redeemer, Shelbyville Church of the Resurrection, Franklin Grace Chapel, Rossview Grace Church, Spring Hill Holy Trinity Church, Nashville St. Agnes' Mission, Cowan St. Andrew's Church, New Johnsonville St. Ann's Church, Nashville St. Anselm's Church, Nashville St. Augustine's Chapel (Vanderbilt University), Nashville St. Barnabas' Church, Tullahoma St. Bartholomew's Church, Nashville St. Bede's Church, Manchester St. David's Church, Nashville St. James' Church, Dickson St. James' Church, Sewanee St. James the Less, Madison St. Joseph of Arimathea, Hendersonville St. Luke's Church, Springfield St. Mark's Church, Antioch St. Mary Magdalene Church, Fayetteville St. Matthew's Church, McMinnville St. Michael's Church, Cookeville St. Paul's Church, Franklin St. Peter's Church, Columbia St. Philip's Church, Nashville Trinity Church, Clarksville Trinity Church, Winchester Controversies, 2000s and 2010s Beginning with the Herlong episcopate in the 1990s, the diocese embarked on an aggressive church extension program, particularly to the fast-growing suburbs of Nashville. Most of the clergy recruited to serve those missions were conservative evangelical in orientation, and some of them, along with their laity, expressed sympathy for the Anglican realignment movement after V. Gene Robinson, a non-celibate gay man, was consecrated to the episcopacy of New Hampshire in 2003. Some established parishes and missions were served by conservative priests during this period also. The diocese became highly polarized as these theologically conservative clergy and some of their laity, supported by the Bishop, objected vocally to increased social and theological liberalism within the Episcopal church. Their positions brought them into conflict with other clergy and laity, mostly in the Nashville and Sewanee areas, who supported a more Broad Church tradition. Prior to that time, the general theological orientation among Tennessee Episcopalians had been toward liberalization and tolerance, especially since the 1960s, despite outspoken opposition by traditionalists. Matters came to a head when the diocese attempted to elect a successor bishop upon Herlong's retirement in 2006. With delegates to the diocesan convention sharply divided and thus unable to come to a decision from a first