The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America organized in 178

The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America organized in 1789 after seceding from the Church of England during the Revolutionary War. The Episcopal Church is divided into dioceses and each diocese is divided into missions and parishes which are individual churches where members meet to worship. The Los Angeles Diocese in California included St. James Parish. In 1950 the Episcopal bishop in Los Angeles who governs the diocese deeded to St. James Parish the property on which its church building stands. In 1979 the Episcopal Church added to its ?ogeneral convention?? (its governing document) a canon to provide that ?oall real and personal property held by or for the benefit of any Parish . . . is held in trust for this Church.??