Citing political infighting within the Anglican Catholic Church, four of its clergy sought the help of the Philippine church in consecrating them to be bishops of a daughter province in which each of them would serve as bishop ordinary of a diocese covering one-quarter of the United States.
[citation needed] In 1981, the PICC's ecumenical officer, Francisco J. Pagtakhan,[1] consecrated three clergy in San Diego, California - Robert Q. Kennaugh of Texas,[2] G. Wayne Craig of Ohio and Forrest Ogden Miller of California (the fourth candidate, Herman Nelson of Florida, asked for his consecration to be delayed - in 1985 he was received back into the ACC).
The Anglican Rite Jurisdiction of the Americas sought to consecrate bishops with valid orders in an unbroken lineage of apostolic succession (the PICC had Old Catholic Union of Utrecht orders) in order to serve the needs of conservative Episcopalians who objected to the revision of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, to the ordination of women, and to the Episcopal Church's relaxation of traditional rules concerning marriage and sexuality.
Along with his former parish in Columbus, Ohio, he subsequently joined the Episcopal Missionary Church (EMC).
The EMC had been founded in the early 1990s by Donald Davies, a retired ECUSA bishop.