The Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church (TPEC) was a small Christian body that saw itself as maintaining the original theological position of the Episcopal Church.
It was part of the Continuing Church Movement, having been founded in 1986 by clergy who had left other Continuing Anglican churches. The TPEC subscribed to The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion. The 1928 Book of Common Prayer or one of its antecedents was used.
In 2008-2009, some clergy, including a recently consecrated Assisting Bishop, advocated constitutional changes which would have made the church more Calvinistic[1], recognizing only two orders of ministry, ceasing to use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, and allowing modern Bible translations. This dispute resulted in upheaval and a schism. The Assisting Bishop and some clergy formed the "Protestant Episcopal Church, USA."
In September, 2011, Canterbury Chapel in Fairhope, Alabama, with Anglican Church of the Incarnation in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the remaining TPEC clergy, were received by Presiding Bishop Jerry Ogles into the Anglican Orthodox Church as the Diocese of the Advent. [2] [3]