page_title: Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth (ACNA)
section_title: Position in the Episcopal Church
hierarchical_section_title: Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth (ACNA) / History / Position in the Episcopal Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Bishop Jack Iker, in a gold hat and red robes.
context_page_description: The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America. The diocese comprises 62 congregations and its headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas.
  The diocese is divided in six deaneries, each headed by a dean, which are:
  Fort Worth East
  Fort Worth West
  Eastern Deanery
  Western Deanery
  Southern Deanery
  Northern Deanery
  The current bishop is Ryan S. Reed, SSC, enthroned as assisting bishop in 21 September 2019, and effective since 31 December 2019 after the retirement of Jack Iker.
  The controversial separation between it and the identically named Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth in the Episcopal Church arose out of events in 2008, when the 26th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth voted to leave the Episcopal Church and join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone.
  At the time of the vote in 2008 to separate from the Episcopal Church, the diocese had geographically fixed boundaries covering 24 counties in Texas and claimed 19,000 members. Afterward, in accordance with the non-geographical concept of dioceses in the Anglican Church of North America, it began to accept congregations outside its previous territory.
context_section_description: The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth came into being in 1983 and, within the Episcopal Church, was long seen as a leader of Anglo-Catholicss and other theological conservatives within American Anglicanism. The diocesan bishop, Jack Iker, SSC, was the last diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church who held that a bishop could not ordain women to the priesthood.
  In 2006, a substantial majority of the 51 parishes in the diocese affiliated with the Anglican Communion Network, an association of dioceses, parishes, and clergy working to counteract a liberal shift in doctrine and practice that abandons or ignores traditional teaching and discipline.
caption: Jack Iker, former Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth
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