Another Central Florida Episcopal congregation has split over the issue of the denomination’s policy on homosexuality.<\/p>\n
Most of the members and ministerial staff of Trinity Episcopal Church in Vero Beach will leave their historic facility in July to form a new congregation separate from the Episcopal Church, USA, if an agreement is ratified later this week with the Diocese of Central Florida. The agreement would formally separate the two groups.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, about 200 of the congregation’s 700 members who wish to remain part of the diocese elected a new vestry, the congregation’s governing board. That board is expected to sign a separation agreement already approved by the diocese and the departing members.<\/p>\n
“I hope it shall be,” said Warren Winchester, who was elected Sunday as the vestry’s presiding officer.<\/p>\n