Topic: The Anglican Communion
LONDON (Reuters) - About a fifth of the world's Anglican leaders are boycotting a meeting this week in protest at the U.S. Episcopal Church's ordination of gay bishops and blessing of same-sex couples, organizers said on Tuesday.Their refusal to attend the conference ...
The Anglican Communion continued its 20-year struggle over sexual morality and women's ordination in 1994. She became the Anglican Communion's fifth woman bishop; three were in the U.S. and one in New Zealand.. The Church of England rejected attempts to separate church ...
The claim that the modern media is responsible for the current levels of strife between the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church is akin to saying space aliens built the Great Pyramids of Giza. The Anglican Church is still alternately called ...
The Anglican Church is really a collection (a communion) of churches that have their origin in the Church of England. There is an official Anglican Communion, consisting of nationally-based churches around the world, and there are also churches in the Anglican tradition ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Gene Robinson, whose consecration as the U.S. Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop opened a deep rift in the worldwide Anglican Communion, said Saturday he planned to retire in 2013.Robinson's election as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003 led ...
The Vatican announced new ecclesiastical structures that permit groups within the Anglican Communion to join with the Catholic Church and continue to practice their faith in an Anglican tradition.In recent years, provinces within the Anglican Communion have adopted liberal policies with regard ...
The Episcopal Church has finished its Annual convention doing just what was predicted. Now the Anglican Communion should do the same. It should cease to recognize the Episcopal Church as headed by Jefferts-Schori as a member of the communion. For anyone out ...
Mr. Deeds commented on my hub about the TEC calling someone secessionists. I presume from the context that Mr. Deeds is referring to the Orthodox who have left the TEC as the secessionists. However, the TEC seceded? not only from the Anglican ...
Anglicanism, one of the major branches of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and a form of Christianity that includes features of both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. Anglicanism is loosely organized in the Anglican Communion, a worldwide family of religious bodies that represents the ...
The churchwarden is a role that is common in the churches that make up the Anglican Communion . While the exact duties of a churchwarden may vary from one part of the Anglican Communion to another, there are a few essential characteristics ...