The church described its faith as being based on the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, the King James Version of the Bible,[1] and the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion.
Now the AEC functions as a non-geographical Diocese of the United Episcopal Church of North America.
Following Hammond's death on 5 May 2004, the church was reduced from three parishes to the one parish in Ventura which then voted to ask for the episcopal oversight of two bishops of the Anglican Diocese of the Good Shepherd: Melvin Pickering and George Connor.
Delegates to an October 2006 General Convention which had been called for the purpose of re-establishing the Anglican Episcopal Church elected Conner to be its presiding bishop.
David Pressey of St. George's parish was elected by the AEC Convention of 2008 to be a suffragan bishop.