text: I think you might want to check with Lutherans on that point.  The more liberal Lutherans--like the ELCA in some instances do permit laity to celebrate Lutheran Eucharist, I think.  I think in ELCA the more conservative "bishops" (presidents) do not permit that, but the liberal ones are more open to it.  
  
  The problem with the Episcopal Church is that they have so many views and practices, it is hard to really understand what they actually do believe.  You have Episcopal churches that are almost Catholic and you have those that are almost Baptist.  You have ones that do not marry gays and ones that do.  You have ones that believe in Transubstantiation and ones that do not.  
  
  Whatever the original reformers believed and taught, their heirs have gotten away from it such that I believe if the reformers were alive today they might rejoin the Catholic Church and realize the mistake they made in breaking communion with the Church.