It’s a pity that some parishes basically got locked out of their own church buildings and in one case pushed out of the denomination, in not just the Episcopal Church but also the United Methodist Church in at least one case in the past two decades or so*, their original building, and forced to buy new buildings and into different denominations such as ACNA because they were not given the discretion your parish was afforded, chiefly because they disagreed with the new perspective of the appointed clergy and the mainline churches overall with regards to moral theology.
Now, conversely:
Historically, churches such as the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Churches have, conversely, assigned priests to parishes as a unilateral decision by the bishop based on his discernment of the spiritual needs of the parish. In the Coptic Orthodox church, a major problem arose in extra-diocesan areas where there was no diocesan bishop who could remove clergy who were not preaching an Orthodox doctrine, and this resulted in some major scandals, for example, one Coptic church in the US and one in Egypt basically became for a time akin to Pentecostal or non-denom megachurches in doctrine, until Pope Tawadros appointed diocesan bishops for all of the former extra-diocesan areas. The case in Muqattam, Egypt, an impoverished suburb of Christians in Cairo who live by herding pigs that feed in the city’s landfill (one of many tragic instances of discrimination against Christians in Islamic countries) was particularly striking, as the church didn’t even look like an Orthodox church but rather a movie theater).
This YouTube channel features videos of sermons by newly appointed bishops and priests regarding returning these parishes to doctri Orthodoxy:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC03thjqxbi4Jmwae5rGeTeQ
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@dzheremi , have you heard of that?