1.   Even at the most conservative Episcopal parishes, these words appear as positives.

2.   He also was a warden of two Episcopal parishes and a member of the advisory council of the Episcopal Church Foundation.

3.   Parker said that in at least two cases, a majority of members of two Episcopal parishes had joined their married clergymen in converting to Catholicism.

4.   The two groups have an old friendship, dating to the days when some Orthodox immigrants from Eastern Europe worshiped in Episcopal parishes before they established their own churches.

5.   The church recently has filed several lawsuits to prevent conservative Episcopal parishes from seceding from the denomination.