When Father Chris Rodriguez brought his family here from New Jersey last September becoming Trinity Episcopal Church’s new rector, he discovered a congregation that was hurting and needed help.
A little over two years ago, a doctrinal split within the congregation prompted approximately three-fourths of its members to leave. Most followed the former Reverend Loren Coyle, the church’s rector at the time, creating the breakaway, Christ Church at K-Mart Plaza. Soon after, Coyle left the ministry.
I am honored to have been the deacon at Fr. Chris’ wedding, and to have sponsored him for postulancy when I was at my parish in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. He is a fine priest.
“In the Roman church they tell you what to think. That’s what I like about the Anglican church. It allows you to exercise your intellect and ask questions,†he says.”
Sentire cum ecclesia, to think with the Church