How many churches have left The Episcopal Church (TEC)?
This number is difficult to pinpoint and depends on how the churches are counted; there is no official count or list at this time due to the inherent difficulty in obtaining an accurate and useful figure. Since 2000, an estimated 200 churches have left The Episcopal Church—at least 100 of those since General Convention 2003. These churches have either fully disassociated from TEC, or experienced a congregational split that resulted in a newly formed Anglican church and a (usually small) remnant of the original Episcopal church still loyal to TEC. In addition, hundreds of individual Episcopalians are leaving their Episcopal churches every week, many of them forming and/or joining churches affiliated with overseas Anglican dioceses or other Anglican-tradition organizations that adhere to historic, orthodox Anglicanism.
