in november 2007, harvey relinquished his ministry in the anglican church of canada pursuant to canon xix of the general synod, and was received into the anglican church of the southern cone under its primate, gregory venables. in becoming a bishop in the southern cone, he came out of retirement, resumed full-time episcopal ministry on a volunteer basis as moderator bishop of the anglican network in canada, a founding diocese of the anglican church in north america in 2009, and began to offer episcopal oversight to a number of canadian anglican parishes that no longer believed the anglican church of canada was doctrinally orthodox.