Episcopalians accept been barred for three years from any policy-setting positions in the Anglican Accord while a assignment force is formed that will try to accommodate adverse angle over female in the 85-million-member ancestors of churches. The Episcopal Abbey is the Anglican physique in the United States.
The advertisement came abreast the end of a weeklong affair in Canterbury, England, alleged by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, to alleviate rifts over same-sex relationships and accumulate the Anglican Accord from agreeable apart. Welby, the Anglican airy leader, does not accept the ascendancy to force a compromise. He set a annual appointment Friday in Canterbury to explain the leaders' decision.
Episcopal Presiding Abbey Michael Curry, who abounding the meeting, told the added leaders their vote "will accompany absolute pain" to gays and lesbians and to Episcopalians "committed to afterward Jesus in the way of adulation and getting a abbey that lives that love." Still, he said he was committed to the Anglican family.
The All-around Anglican Future Conference, which represents theologically bourgeois Anglican leaders worldwide, had approved sanctions adjoin the U.S. church, and some associates said they would airing out of this week's affair unless some amends was applied. One leader, Ugandan Archbishop Stanley Ntagali, did so. In a annual Thursday, the appointment accepted as GAFCON said their leaders were admiring by the aftereffect of the meeting, but "this activity accept to not be apparent as an end, but as a beginning."
Anglicans, whose roots are in the missionary plan of the Abbey of England, are the third-largest alignment of Christians in the world, abaft Roman Catholics and the Orthodox.
The acquaintance has been fracturing for decades over gay relationships, women's allotment and added issues. Those rifts blew advanced accessible in 2003 if the New York-based Episcopal Abbey adored the aboriginal aboveboard gay bishop, Gene Robinson, in New Hampshire. Last year, the top U.S. Episcopal aldermanic body, or General Convention, voted to accredit gay marriages in their churches.
The a lot of articulate protests to the Episcopal embrace of gay rights came from Africa, home to some of the fastest-growing churches in the Anglican accord and the centermost action to gay relationships as a abuse of Scripture. Abounding African countries accept criminalized gay relationships.
Theological conservatives from about the apple abutting calm to anatomy the All-around Anglican Future Appointment as a acquaintance aural the communion, break themselves from the U.S. Episcopal Abbey and abnegation to participate in some Anglican gatherings.
In 2009, Anglican civic leaders in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and added abbey ambit helped actualize the Anglican Abbey in North America, as a theologically bourgeois another to the U.S. Episcopal Church. Welby had arrive the baton of the bourgeois North American physique to participate in the Canterbury assembly.
The columnist appointment for the Anglican leaders in Canterbury said the annual appear Thursday affirmed the leaders' "unanimous charge to airing together." The annual accustomed "deep differences" over compassionate of alliance and said the majority in the affair "reaffirm" the teaching that alliance is abandoned the abutment of a man and a woman. The leaders alleged the Episcopal Abbey approval of gay alliance "a axiological abandonment from the acceptance and teaching" of the majority of Anglicans.
As a result, Episcopalians "no best represent us on all-comprehensive and interfaith bodies," and accept the agnate of eyewitness cachet in Anglican commissions, the leaders said.
Robinson, in response, acquaint on his Twitter account, "God's acumen adjoin those who cover too abounding will be beneath acrid than the acumen adjoin those who cover too few."
While the U.S. Episcopal Abbey is abandoned a part of Anglican ambit in acknowledging gay marriage, added Anglican civic churches, in Brazil, South Africa, New Zealand and Scotland, accept taken accomplish against accepting same-sex relationships. The top physique of the Anglican Abbey of Canada is appointed to vote in July on a angle that would accredit gay marriage. A backer for the Canadian abbey said its leader, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, would animadversion afterwards the annual appointment Friday.
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