The merger was finalized by the 80th General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America on July 11, 2022.

Fort Worth and Dallas clergy and parishes have both had a long history of leadership in the Anglo-Catholic faction within American Anglicanism.

[4] After the consecration of an openly gay New Hampshire bishop, Gene Robinson, most of the parishes in the diocese[5] affiliated with the Anglican Communion Network, an association of dioceses, parishes, and clergy opposing what its members considered a liberal shift in doctrine and practice that abandoned traditional teaching and discipline.

[8] The Presiding Bishop then declared the diocesan leadership vacant and called a Special Convention in response to the wishes of the roughly 8,000 members of the diocese in 17 parishes who wished to remain in the Episcopal Church and had therefore been "heartened" by the inhibition of Bishop Iker.

[9] The Special Convention was held in Fort Worth, at Trinity Episcopal Church, on February 7, 2009.

"[13] The opinion concluded that the ACNA-affiliated group's "actions, as corporate trustees, were invalid under Texas law after disaffiliation in 2008."

[14] On May 22, 2020, the Supreme Court of Texas issued its decision holding that "(1) resolution of this property dispute does not require consideration of an ecclesiastical question, (2) under the governing documents, the withdrawing faction is the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, and (3) the trial court properly granted summary judgment in the withdrawing faction's favor.

Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry joins me in acknowledging our disappointment and urging all of us to be gentle with one another during this trying time, with the important goal of continuing our worship of God and our ministries in this diocese in as uninterrupted [a] manner as possible.