Until the American Revolution, there was no Episcopal Church in America. In colonial times, worshipers of the faith were called Anglicans, and they followed the structure and rules laid down by the Church of England. But as tensions between the colonies and Great Britain grew worse, the ties between the Anglican Church in America and the Church of England severed, mostly over the prayers for the King that were a mandatory requirement of each service. In the aftermath of the Revolution, many Americans wanted to remain Anglicans but could not align themselves formally with a church whose figurehead was the British King. Thus, in 1789, a convention was held at Christ Church in Philadelphia to create a new faith for a new American nation. For a model, they looked to the renegade Scottish Episcopal Church, which had been at odds with the Church of England since the exile of Scottish-born James II in 1688. What the convention fashioned came to be called the American Episcopal Church.