More On Arbitrariness

A visitor reports,

[Concerning arbitrariness and] the "delict of schism," what about Fr. Ed Meeks, who was raised a Catholic, went to Catholic seminary, left to marry not long before his scheduled diaconate ordination, became an Episcopalian, was ordained in the Episcopal Church, served there for well over a decade, then joined the "Charismatic Episcopal Church," and then the ACA, before returning to the Catholic Church (with most of his congregation) and was ordained [shortly thereafter] (by Cardinal Wuerl, of all people, who, for much of his episcopate, in Pittsburgh, then Washington, DC, would not ordain any married convert Protestant minister)?

By contrast, the former Episcopalian Bishop of Albany, NY, Daniel Herzog, was likewise originally a Catholic, then a seminarian, then left to marry, became an Episcopalian, was ordained in the Episcopal Church, and was Bishop of Albany from 1997 to 2007. He and his wife, likewise a former Catholic, returned to the Catholic Church in 2007, but when he was refused ordination in the Catholic Church, he and his wife went back to the Episcopal Church in 2010.

While this is pure speculation, then Bp Steenson was clearly on track to become Ordinary once the OCSP was erected. There would not have been room for a second former Episcopal bishop in the scheme of things.