Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is the seat of Allegheny County and with a population of 305,841 is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. With a metropolitan CSA population of 2,659,937, it is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia and the 20th-largest in the U.S. Pittsburgh is known as both "the Steel City" for its more than 300 steel-related businesses and "the City of Bridges" for its 446 bridges. The city features 30 skyscrapers, 2 inclined railways, a pre-revolutionary fortification, and the source of the Ohio at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers. This vital link of the Atlantic coast and Midwest cuts through the mineral-rich Alleghenies which made the area coveted by the French and British Empires, Virginia, Whiskey Rebels, Civil War raiders and media networks [From Wikipedia]

In 2008 the Anglican Communion of the Episcopal Church in the United States voted to split from the Episcopal Church of England. There was a main theological rift that had occurred back in 2003 with the election of the first openly gay bishop. The issue of course, was over the whether or not this election followed along with the doctrine. This would start a theological wound that would expand into the secession. The Archbishop of the new and more global Anglican church would be headed by the Pittsburgh dioceses bishop Duncan. There were a total of nine groups who chose to leave the Episcopal church, which was part of the Church of England, and chose to join a newly formed Anglican Church of North America. This split brought on property deputes as well as personal disputes in the Pittsburgh area.