In many ways, it will be a memorial service for a conservative parish that spent decades struggling to find itself as the diocese took a more liberal path.

One proposal would be to allow conservative parishes to secede from dioceses run by women, church officials have said.

Several conservative foreign bishops have recently intervened in American dioceses by taking authority over conservative parishes that no longer wish to be affiliated with their liberal bishops.

Despite winning in Blanco's hometown, he lost many normally conservative parishes in north Louisiana, and Blanco prevailed with 52 percent of the popular vote.

Jefferson is one of the most conservative parishes in Louisiana.

It has since attracted about 20 conservative parishes, which joined after cutting their ties to the Episcopal Church.

A number of conservative parishes, however, continued to use the 1928 version.

Several conservative parishes, however, continued to use the 1928 version.

The report strongly repudiates bishops who have violated the church's traditional lines of authority by intervening in conservative parishes that have disavowed their more liberal bishops.

In the last year, some African bishops have claimed jurisdiction over conservative American parishes that wish to break from their Episcopal bishops.