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Anglicans conclude meeting on gay split
LONDON (AP) - A commission seeking to resolve the Anglican Communion's crisis over a homosexual U.S. bishop and other gay issues wrapped up its work Friday and said it would publish its report Oct. 18. The commission, chaired by Irish primate Robin Eames, issued a brief statement as it ended a weeklong meeting at Windsor Castle, west of London. Before the meeting, Eames said the panel would probably "recommend radical changes in the ways Anglicanism relates to its different constituencies," but Friday's statement gave no further clues about the recommendations.
The commission is dealing with a deep split among and within Anglican national churches caused by the election of V. Gene Robinson, who has a male partner, as bishop of New Hampshire, and by the decision by a Canadian diocese to bless gay relationships. Robinson's election has left rifts within the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church of the United States, and some conservative churches in Africa and elsewhere have refused to meet with Episcopal Church leaders.
There have been calls to suspend the Episcopal Church from the global communion, and some Episcopal churches have formed relationships with African bishops rather than accept oversight from bishops who approved of Robinson's appointment. The commission said it would publish its report in London at the start of a meeting of senior Anglican officials. The Anglican Communion is an association of independent national churches with 77 million members. In the United States, eight of the 107 Episcopal dioceses have joined the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes, created six months ago in opposition to denominational leaders.
This week, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles filed lawsuits against three breakaway parishes that aligned themselves with Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, head of Uganda's 8 million-member church who said he acted to uphold "biblical orthodoxy." On Sept. 15, former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey will preside at confirmation services for 11 parishes in Virginia that have rejected their own bishop because of his support for Robinson.
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The commission is dealing with a deep split among and within Anglican national churches caused by the election of V. Gene Robinson, who has a male partner, as bishop of New Hampshire, and by the decision by a Canadian diocese to bless gay relationships. Robinson's election has left rifts within the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church of the United States, and some conservative churches in Africa and elsewhere have refused to meet with Episcopal Church leaders.
There have been calls to suspend the Episcopal Church from the global communion, and some Episcopal churches have formed relationships with African bishops rather than accept oversight from bishops who approved of Robinson's appointment. The commission said it would publish its report in London at the start of a meeting of senior Anglican officials. The Anglican Communion is an association of independent national churches with 77 million members. In the United States, eight of the 107 Episcopal dioceses have joined the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes, created six months ago in opposition to denominational leaders.
This week, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles filed lawsuits against three breakaway parishes that aligned themselves with Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, head of Uganda's 8 million-member church who said he acted to uphold "biblical orthodoxy." On Sept. 15, former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey will preside at confirmation services for 11 parishes in Virginia that have rejected their own bishop because of his support for Robinson.
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