[QUOTE=journeying;153060]The Diocese of Central Florida has posted this protocol for parishes leaving TEC.  Bishop Howe has issued this letter.  ENS has this article.

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[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Interesting!  I think such protocols are a good idea.  I haven't read these in detail, but the ENS article enumerates one protocol as requiring a meeting with an entire congregation and the diocesan bishop after a vestry has voted - based on its sense of the wishes of the congregation as a whole - to disaffiliate with TEC.  I think this meeting protocol (as well as the requirement that the vestry base its vote on a sense of the wishes of the entire congregation) is important because, typically, by the time a vestry votes to disaffiliate, it appears that opposition has been slowly worn down over a period of years in a kind of extended war of attrition.  So the question in my mind has always been the degree to which a vestry vote to disaffiliate accurately and fairly represents the wishes of an entire congregation. 

Dutch's point about the protocols being cool with 815 is well taken.  According to the [COLOR="SeaGreen"]Washington Times[/COLOR], the PB overrode Peter Lee's plan in 2004 to accept buyouts from the 11 Virginia parishes leaving TEC for CANA.  She testified in her deposition that she couldn't support negotiations for sale of the congregations if the congregations intended to set up as other parts of the Anglican Communion.  In light of this, I'm assuming that Central Florida would not have adopted the protocols - let alone published them - without consulting with and receiving concurrence from the PB.[/COLOR]