Complex sentence: When the summons to General Convention was issued in 1996 only seven parishes responded, and they proceeded to place the three Missionary Districts into suspension, and the church was administered as a single diocese from then until April 2010.
Split into simpler sentences: When the summons to General Convention was issued in 1996 only seven parishes responded. They proceeded to place the Missionary Districts into suspension, and the church was administered as a single diocese from then until April 2010.