Following the separation, the departing group was initially named as a diocese of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.
The Anglican Communion office website does not list the diocese as a part of the Province of the Southern Cone.
As a result it considered those who allied themselves with the province of the Southern Cone to have left the Episcopal Church.
Schofield spoke at the time as if there were a single diocese of San Joaquin, no longer a part of the Episcopal Church, of which he was the bishop.
(Jerry Lamb was elected provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin in March 2008.)
Bishop Schofield was found not to be the head of the diocese and had to relinquish all money, property and any assumed authority.
The ruling said that the local court erred when it involved itself in ecclesiastical issues by ordering that Lamb, not Schofield, was the rightful bishop.
[5] On 14 May 2011, the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin, in special convention meeting, elected the Rev.
St. James Cathedral, the former diocesan offices, the Episcopal Camp and Conference Center near Yosemite National Park (known as ECCO), the diocesan investment trust and 25 other church properties, valued at about $50 million, were included in the decision.