Monday, July 12, 2010

Synod Sinks Hopes of Church of England Staying Together. Schism in all but name

from VirtueOnline

Synod Sinks Hopes of Church of England Staying Together. Schism in all but name

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
July 11, 2010

News from the Church of England's General Synod meeting in York was terse and direct: The Liberals have won. By 2014 the Church of England will ordain its first woman bishop.

By a procedural technicality the Archbishops' amendment was defeated, and conservative Anglicans here are now unchurched.

Basically, the Church of England is over. It is now Province XVII of The Episcopal Church. The Church of England has run up the TEC flag over York.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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