The Fort Worth Four

According to the information in this post, the four Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth clergy who met with Bp Vann on June 16, 2008 were

The Very Reverend William A. Crary, Jr., SSC, a founding priest of the Diocese with 32 years of experience in the Diocese, a member of the SSC (Society of the Holy Cross), Dean of the Eastern Deanery, and is the senior rector in the Diocese, serving St. Laurence for 22 years.

The Reverend Canon Charles A. Hough, III, SSC, a founding priest of the Diocese with 30 years experience in the Diocese, Canon to Bishop Iker for 15 years, a member of the SSC, Chair of our Diocesan Deputation to the General Convention of The Episcopal Church for 23 years, has served parishes in Granbury and Grand Prairie.

The Reverend Louis L. Tobola, Jr., SSC, a founding priest of the Diocese with 31 years experience in the Diocese, a member of the SSC, a founding priest for a new congregation in the Diocese, St. Barnabas the Apostle, has served as Dean of the Cathedral and Dean of the Eastern Deanery.

The Very Reverend Christopher C. Stainbrook, SSC, came to Fort Worth from New York in 1990 by invitation of Bp. Pope, has been Vicar of St. Timothy’s since 1994, is Finance Committee Chair, Diocesan Historiographer, Dean of the Fort Worth East Deanery, and Special Liaison to the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth.

On August 16, 2008, the four priests issued a statement backtracking from their meeting with Bp Vann, saying, "In retrospect, we regret our choice of timing for starting these conversations." On April 1, 2011, Bp Iker announced that Hough and Tobola had resigned their positions with the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, presumably in anticipation of going into the forthcoming ordinariate.

On December 19, 2011, North Texas Catholic reported on former Fort Worth Episcopal priests awaiting the pending erection of the OCSP, although of the original four, Crary had dropped out of the picture, while Fr Perkins was new:

Hough is one of three spiritual leaders for the community which had been meeting at the diocesan Catholic Center until recently. The community is divided into three fellowships: St. John Vianney in Cleburne, which Hough leads; St. Peter the Rock in Arlington, led by Timothy Perkins, another former Episcopalian priest; and Blessed John Henry Newman in Keller, led by Louis Tobola, also a former Episcopalian priest who is still in the process of coming into the Catholic Church with the members of his fellowship.

However, this is the last mention I find of Tobola or a Newman group in Keller, TX. Fr Crary does not appear in later references than 2008. Ultimately, six former Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth priests were ordained by Bp Vann on June 25, 2012, including Fr Timothy Perkins, Frs Hough III and IV, and Fr Stainbrook.

My regular correspondent provides this summation of Fr Hough's and Fr Stainbrook's later careers:

Fr Hough III has gone from key player in the OCSP to a man completely sidelined. Abruptly "retired" as Vicar-General after a year and a half at the job and replaced by a contemporary [Fr Perkins, who avoided the 2008 brouhaha], he is also one of a team of three: Fr Hough III, Fr Thomas Kennedy who was himself replaced after a short stint as pastor of St Mary the Virgin, Arlington, and Fr Cornelius, former administrator of St Alban's, Rochester who left for health reasons, who have taken charge of St Timothy's, Ft Worth.

However, notwithstanding three senior pastors, St Timothy's has never been large enough to have its own facility. My correspondent continues,

Fr Stainbrook, who brought this congregation into the Church, has been reassigned to St John Vianney, Cleburne. This latter congregation had been ministered to by Fr Hough III, initially, then he was moved to St Timothy's last year and Fr Jonathan Duncan was briefly in charge. When Fr Duncan moved to Greenville, Fr Stainbrook began saying mass in Cleburne while continuing as pastor at St Timothy's.

It seems clear to me that the current leadership in Houston see St John Vianney as the parish with a future; the competent leader is being deployed there while St Timothy's gets the punishment battalion. StJV is currently worshipping in a school auditorium so I would assume the plan is to find, or build, a church which can be used by both congregations. Whatever, the plan, Fr Hough III will not be playing an important role. Whatever Steenson [or Iker for that matter] saw in him, Bp Lopes does not.

I would greatly appreciate further information on what happened to Frs Crary and Tobola in subsequent years.

UPDATE: Fr Crary appears as a summer replacement priest at St Alban's Anglican Church, Arlington, TX in 2015.