Is pecusa really a hierachical church?

ctowles posted this comment at Stand Firm in Faith:

The crux of the arguement is about whether the Episcopal Church which has elected conventions, elected bishops, elected delagates, elected deputies, elected committee members, elected vestries, due process, diocesen canons, senior wardens, and vacation bible school theologians is like the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church whose one election is actually a divination followed by a ritual fire. If one gets a fair hearing on that the ballgame changes. The Episcopal Church is not hierarchical. The Presiding Bishop can’t tell a bishop what to do under the canons. All she can do is offer them for inhibition or deposition if the House of Bishops decides to meet and vote on it which they passed on this May. That is a long way from the Pope’s reach. The Episcopal Church has the same rituals of Mass as the Roman Catholic faith, but that is not hiearchical organization. The Episcopal Church is essentially Congregational.


So, is pecusa really hierarchichal? Certainly not in the way that the Roman Catholic or Orthodox churches are. Maybe Good Shepherd or another parish in the U.S. can explore this question in litigation and break the Dennis Canon. That would be a service to Christendom and a back-breaking decision against the Episcopal Fraud.