 Much of the Cathedral's congregation, among them some of Victoria's major figures such as Sir James Douglas and Dr. J.S.Helmcken, met with Cridge a few days later and voted to form a new congregation, the Church of Our Lord, under the auspices of the Reformed Episcopal Church,
which had recently broken from the Episcopal Church of the United States.Even so, the Columbia Mission Report was able to state that
givings at Christ Church in 1875 were similar to those in 1871.