Episcopal Parishes Break From Church Over Gay Bishop
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LOS ANGELES, CAThe long-threatened schism within the Episcopal Churchin reaction to the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshirecame to fruition in Southern California Tuesday, when two parishes announced they were leaving the ...
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The Episcopal Church&#039;s top policymaking body struggled Friday to balance Anglican demands to temporarily bar gays from becoming bishops with pleas from liberals against such a move.
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The head of the Episcopal Church asked church members for patience Tuesday after fellow Anglican leaders demanded the U.S. denomination step back from its support of gays or risk losing its full membership in the world Anglican fellowship.
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In a direct challenge to the leadership of the U.S. Episcopal Church, an influential Anglican archbishop from Africa is exploring ways to allow American congregations upset over the election of a gay bishop to realign themselves under his jurisdiction.
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An Anglican church report chastised the US Episcopal Church yesterday for consecrating a gay bishop and asked American church leaders to apologize or consider withdrawing from Anglican functions.
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New Hampshire clergy acknowledge a  split within the Anglican church, but stop short of an apology.
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The worldwide Anglican Communion, facing fracture over the Episcopal Church USAâs ordination of a gay bishop and a Canadian dioceseâs blessing of gay unions, called Monday for both to show regret and declare a moratorium on similar actions in the
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At least seven Virginia Episcopal parishes, opposed to the consecration of a gay bishop and the blessing of same-sex unions, have voted overwhelmingly to break from the U.S. church in a dramatic demonstration of widening rifts within the denomination.
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The U.S. Episcopal Church is in the middle of a wrenching debate that could end with its departure from the worldwide Anglican Communion over disagreements about gay clergy and same-sex unions.
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The head of the Episcopal Church left for London suddenly Wednesday to do damage control among his global counterparts as they prepare to ostracize him.
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Anglican leaders concluded their five-day meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, yesterday by issuing a demand that the U.S. Episcopal Church unequivocally stop blessing same-sex unions and consecrating any more gay bishops.
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Anglican leaders, striving to stop their  loose association of churches falling apart, urged North  American liberals Monday to ban same-sex marriages and the  consecration of gay bishops.
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Some clergy have criticized what they regarded as the churchâs leftward drift, including the consecration of an openly gay bishop.
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A report released yesterday by an Anglican church commission reprimanded the Episcopal Church for not taking worldwide church opposition into account when it confirmed an openly gay bishop last year and chided bishops from other countries for interfering
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Bishops in Australia's largest city Sydney are pulling out of the Anglican Church's top global meeting this year in a dispute over gay bishops and same-sex marriages, their archbishop said.
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A suggestion by African, Asian and   Latin American Anglican bishops that the Episcopal Church be   turned into two churches because of disputes over gay issues   would lead to chaos, the head of the U.S. church said on   Thursday.
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A high-level meeting called by the   Archbishop of Canterbury failed to find a way to stop the U.S.   Episcopal church from splintering even further over gay issues,   church leaders announced on Wednesday.