The Pastoral Measure 1968 permitted the emergence of the Team Ministry in places where the old parochial structure was becoming unworkable. Typical examples would be of an area where there were too many church buildings for the number of worshippers yet it would be harmful to the church's ministry to close any of the buildings. There are serious theological issues around the exercise of episcope in this situation as the arrangements tend to destablise the idea of the local in Anglican ecclesiology.