Archbishop Lewis issued a writ of inhibition against McNeley (suspending him from the exercise of his office), alleging that McNeley had struck Bishop Joseph Deyman at the meeting and thereby excommunicated himself. On August 19, Lewis charged the five with "invasion of the patrimony of the metropolitan" and issued writs of inhibition against the rest of the group. On August 28, the ACC's Provincial Court ruled that Cahoon was Senior Bishop Ordinary, and when Lewis died on September 23, 1997, Cahoon assumed the role of Acting Metropolitan. He was succeeded by a new Metropolitan, Bishop Michael Stephens, elected by a biennial provincial synod in Norfolk, Virginia on October 15. Meanwhile, the five dissenting bishops met as another synod in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and elected Bishop Hamlett as Metropolitan. By 1999, the dissenting bishops had separated into groups forming two new churches, the Holy Catholic Church Western Rite, friendly to Eastern Orthodox theology and skeptical about Anglicanism's doctrinal comprehensiveness, and the Holy Catholic Church Anglican Rite, following traditional Anglo-Catholic theology. 2010 reunion attempt In March 2010, the bishops of the Holy Catholic Church Western Rite and the Holy Catholic Church Anglican Rite entered into full communion as one church, but retaining both names, in addition to a third name, Anglican Rite Catholic Church, with Bishop Kleppinger as Metropolitan. At the time of the 2010 union, these dioceses were reported: Diocese of the Holy Trinity and Great Plains Diocese of the Pacific and Southwest Diocese of the Resurrection Diocese of Litoral Atlántico (South America) Missionary Diocese of American Indian People Diocese of Europe Diocese of Umzi Wase Tiyopiya (Africa) By the end of 2010, however, the HCC-AR magazine Koinonia had dropped references to Kleppinger from its pages and Bishop Leo Michael, in an editorial, had criticized suggestions of diluting the Anglican identity of HCC-AR through "Western Rite" approaches. Leadership The Diocese of the Holy Trinity and Great Plains The Rt. Rev. J. Leo Michael, Bishop Ordinary Missionary Jurisdiction of India The Rt. Rev. Edmund Jayaraj, Missionary Bishop Province of South America The Rt. Rev. Luis Carlos Garcia Medina, Bishop Ordinary The Rt. Rev. Fray Juan de Jesus Torres, Assisting Bishop Monastic Communities The Third Order of Saint Francis The Rev. Jay Rice, Father Guardian A Third order within the Franciscan movement of the Holy Catholic Church (Anglican Rite), originally founded by St. Francis of Assisi. The Orders of Saint Francis in the Anglican