Every Man a Bishop
To my mind, the most interesting part of this piece:
The Catholic Church, in contrast, has approximately 195 dioceses in the United States (mostly Roman Rite, but a few Eastern Rite eparchies of various kinds). Living in those dioceses are about 65 million Catholics, roughly 333,000 Catholics per bishop. To get to the Episcopalian bishop-to-parishioner ratio, the Church would have to add over 2,800 dioceses in the United States; to get to the Catholic ratio, the Episcopalians would have to downsize to approximately eight bishops. Which would make the General Convention a less complicated affair, at least.
The six dioceses that announced their intention to break away  Fort Worth, Pittsburgh, South Carolina, Central Florida, San Joaquin, Calif., and Springfield, Ill.  had long threatened to leave, and they constitute a small minority of the Episcopal Church's 110 dioceses and 2.3 million members.110 dioceses? Does that strike anyone else as an awfully high bishop-to-parishioner ratio? If you meet an Episcopalian on the street, there's a 1-in-21,000 chance that he's currently serving as a bishop somewhere.
The Catholic Church, in contrast, has approximately 195 dioceses in the United States (mostly Roman Rite, but a few Eastern Rite eparchies of various kinds). Living in those dioceses are about 65 million Catholics, roughly 333,000 Catholics per bishop. To get to the Episcopalian bishop-to-parishioner ratio, the Church would have to add over 2,800 dioceses in the United States; to get to the Catholic ratio, the Episcopalians would have to downsize to approximately eight bishops. Which would make the General Convention a less complicated affair, at least.
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