The Church of St. Clement is a parish of the Anglican Diocese of the Southwest, located in the center of El Paso, Texas.
A New York-born Episcopalian layman and young newspaper editor and lawyer, Gaylord J. Clarke and his wife moved to El Paso from Nebraska and hosted Episcopal Church prayer services in his parlor.
[4] Services ceased to be held and Tays left El Paso during the economic depression following the Panic of 1873.
George Easter, arranged for St. Clement's move to its current location in West Central El Paso, just north of downtown.
[11] St. Clement's also contributed to the planting of the Episcopal churches of St. Anne's, St. Alban's, St. Christopher's, All Saints, and St. Francis on the Hill in El Paso.
[8] In keeping with the conservative evangelical orientation of the diocese under Bishop Terence Kelshaw,[12] St. Clement's members and leaders also became increasingly distant from the direction of the national Episcopal Church, in particular on issues like the authority of Scripture and doctrines on homosexuality.
William C. Cobb, the congregation of St. Clement voted 460 to 41 to separate from the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of the Rio Grande.
[16] St. Clement joined the nascent Anglican Church in North America and became a founding member of the Diocese of the Southwest starting in 2011.
St. Clement's design is Gothic revival, with a cruciform floorplan oriented southwest–northeast along the nave axis and northwest–southeast along the transept.