Juan Alberto Morales, the founder and first abbot of Saint Benedict's Abbey in Bartonville, Illinois,[5] was elected as the 9th Bishop of the Diocese of Quincy on September 18, 2010.

[9] In 2006, the Diocese issued a news release saying that it was "unwilling to accept the leadership" of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, and passed resolutions asking for "alternative pastoral oversight" and withdrawing consent to be included in Province 5 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

As Ackerman's resignation as bishop took effect on November 1, Edward den Blaauwen of Moline, Illinois, was appointed to preside over the synod.

[3] The major resolutions, which both passed, were to annul the diocese's accession to the constitution and canons of The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and to join the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.

After the vote to realign passed, it was announced that Archbishop Gregory Venables of the Southern Cone appointed den Blaauwen as vicar general in the absence of a sitting bishop.