Trinity to revisits deal breaking from church in Indian River County
By Elliott Jones
Friday, January 25, 2008

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Trinity Episcopal Church's initiative to break from the Episcopal Church appeared to be close at hand — until some parishioners recently spoke out about it.
The church's lead minister, the Rev. Lorne Coyle, has been pushing for separation because of disagreements with the national church over religious beliefs, he said last year.

Recently, church leaders and a diocese board reached an agreement in principal that could have allowed the separation, with those in favor of the separation keeping the property, including a new multimillion-dollar sanctuary.

When opponents of the church break-up learned of the proposal, they began voicing their dissent to Bishop John Howe with the church's Central Florida Diocese, based in Orlando. That caused the agreement to fall through, according to Howe's assistant, The Rev. Ernie Bennett. the rest