Network of breakaway traditionalists expected to announce creation of rival province . `` This is all these folks coming back together . '' Move comes after years of dispute over progressive direction of Episcopal Church . Tipping point for many was consecration of gay man as bishop of New Hampshire . New diocese expected to bring in 100,000 from parishes that left Episcopal Church .
Network of breakaway traditionalists expected to announce creation of rival province . Move comes after years of dispute over progressive direction of Episcopal Church . Tipping point for many was consecration of gay man as bishop of New Hampshire . New diocese expected to bring in 100,000 from parishes that left Episcopal Church .