Richard Templeton Brown, rector of The Falls Church, organized a congregation in 1843.

The congregation first met at the historic Fairfax Courthouse and then moved to the private home of Mrs. William Rumsey, a Baptist from New York.

As Union troops advanced into Virginia at the outset of the Civil War, the congregation was forced to abandon Zion Church.

Graffiti written by the officers stationed in the house was found on the walls in a closet on the third floor and is now on display at the Fairfax Museum.

At the close of the Civil War, the congregation of Zion Church re-formed and began to meet in the Fairfax Courthouse.

It was very active in the anti-abortion movement, and also started a conversion therapy program to convert homosexuals.

This prompted many of the church's more liberal members to leave, replaced by more conservative Christians from other denominations.

He emphasized an evangelical call to worldwide mission and outreach to the poor, as well as biblical theology.

Martyn Minns was made an honorary canon of All Saints' Cathedral, Mpwapwa, Tanzania in 2002; he was consecrated as a bishop by Archbishop Peter Akinola in 2006.

This time of discernment led to a parish vote where the entire membership voted on whether to leave the Episcopal Church because of the ordination of Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church.

Initially a Virginia Circuit Court judge agreed with CANA regarding technical points about whether the TEC was qualified to bring the action, and the case of real property ownership was not decided.

TEC appealed, and on June 10, 2010, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned the decision of the circuit court, specifically finding that the Virginia statute on which the departing members relied did not apply because the departing members had not joined a "branch" of the same denomination.

[3] In 2012, the Circuit Court of Fairfax County decided the suit on remand, in combination with several other Northern Virginia TEC property splitting actions.

Applying the neutral principles of law doctrine, the court upheld TEC's Constitution and Canons and ordered that CANA and the trustees of the withdrawn churches "promptly relinquish control over the properties to the [TEC] Diocese.