The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth is a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and hosted that province's inaugural assembly in June 2009.

At the time of the vote in 2008 to separate from the Episcopal Church, the diocese had geographically fixed boundaries covering 24 counties in Texas and claimed 19,000 members.

[2] Afterward, in accordance with the non-geographical concept of dioceses in the Anglican Church of North America, it began to accept congregations outside its previous territory.

[4] The decision of convention was challenged on canonical and legal grounds by members from several parishes (the vote to leave TEC was 72 to 19 clergy and 102 to 25 laity), who then reorganized[5] and remained within the Episcopal Church with the Rt.

[8] In 2009, the diocese was a founding jurisdiction of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), the first convention of which was held at St. Vincent's Cathedral.

[13] The Supreme Court of the United States denied a petition of the Episcopal Church plaintiffs for the reversal of the decision, on November 3, 2014, returning the case to Texas jurisdiction.

[14] Iker, in a public statement, stated, "We are pleased that the Supreme Court has agreed with our position that the TEC [Episcopal Church] petition for a review was without merit.

[17] On April 5, 2018, the appeals court ruled that the Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth held legal title to all properties.

[8] On July 27, 2018, the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth (ACNA) filed a petition for review in the Supreme Court of Texas.

[20] The Texas Supreme Court ruled 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.

Thus, the court again rejected TEC's contention that the determination of property ownership was an ecclesiastical matter which would otherwise require "deferential principles" to the hierarchical church pursuant to the 1st Amendment.

Thus, the majority votes of the Diocesan Conventions of 2007 and 2008 amended the Diocese's charters removing all mention of TEC in compliance with state law.