It was constituted in 1992 (incorporated in the State of California on 5 May 1993)[1] in order to stand against the perceived apostasy of the Episcopal Church in matters of theology, liturgy and morality.
[3] He was consecrated as the presiding bishop for the denomination by the archbishop emeritus of the United Episcopal Church of North America, the Most Reverend Charles Doren (born 1915), and the Rt.
Bishop Scheibler had been educated at Biola University in La Mirada, California, where he received his doctorate in missiology.
[8] The EACA effectively ceased to exist when Bishop Scheibler left California in 2003 and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he held the Pieper Family Endowed Chair in Servant-Leadership and Distinguished Lecturer in General Studies at the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
[11] In 2012, the Episcopal Church won a judicial order to remove Reverend Samuel Scheibler and the parish from the property.