“This is an honor. I have been asked to serve in this capacity for a short time. Hopefully, we will be able to bring people to Jesus Christ,” Price said Saturday in Trinity Cathedral, site of the Diocese of Pittsburgh’s 144th annual convention.
Price’s leadership of 28 parishes begins after one of the most prominent splits of an Episcopal diocese in the United States and less than two weeks after an Allegheny County judge ruled that the churches he leads own diocesan property such as offices and endowments.
Still at stake, however, is the future of the majority of parishes that last year chose to split from the Episcopal Church.
That group’s leader, Bishop Robert Duncan, serves as interim head of the Anglican Church in North America, a new church made up of conservative congregations in the United States and Canada.