People Mentioned in the Article
<- Archbishop of Canterbury
- Bishop Gene Robinson
- Bishop Martyn Minns
- Bishop Minns
- Bishop Robert Duncan
- Bishop Robinson
- Jack Iker
- Jim Naughton
- John-David Schofield
- Katharine Jefferts Schori,
- Professor David C. Steinmetz
- Rev. Charles Robertson
Quotes in the Article
- Duncan:
- “We’re going through Reformation times, and in Reformation times things aren’t neat and clean,”
- “In Reformation times, new structures are emerging.”
- Minns:
- “It’s desirable that he get behind this. It’s something that would bring a little more coherence to the life of the Communion. But if he doesn’t, so be it.”
- “One of the questions a number of the primates are asking is why do we still need to be operating under the rules of an English charity, which is what the Anglican Consultative Council does. Why is England still considered the center of the universe?”
- “It’s one thing to feel distressed. It’s another thing to do something about it.”
- “There’s some people standing back to wait and see if we pull this off, which I think we’ll do. Then others will join us — parishes, and maybe dioceses.”
- Robertson:
- “There is room within the Episcopal Church for people of different views, and we regret that some have felt the need to depart from the diversity of our common life in Christ."
- “the official, recognized presence of the Anglican Communion in North America.”
- Steinmetz:
- “It’s really an unprecedented and momentous event,
- “It’s certainly going to be deplored by one part of the Communion and hailed by another,”
- “Are we going to end up with two families of Anglicans, and if so, are they in communion with each other in any way? There are so many possibilities and geopolitical differences, it’s really hard to predict where this will go.”
Mentions of the Schism in the Article
- broken with traditional Christianity
- Episcopalians who wanted to leave the church but remain in the Anglican Communion put themselves under the authority of bishops in Africa and Latin America.
- rifts
- broke
- broke away
- coherence
- conservative group
- differences
- dissident
- he doubted that a rival Anglican province could grow much larger
- lead to new defections from the Episcopal Church, the American branch of Anglicanism.
- may not seek approval for their new province from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, or from the Anglican Consultative Council, the leadership group of bishops, clergy and laity that until now was largely responsible for blessing new jurisdictions.
- new province
- other groups that had left the Episcopal Church
- Reformation
- take their church properties with them
- The move threatens the fragile unity of the Anglican Communion,
- two competing provinces
- two families of Anglicans
- unified breakaway church was precipitated by the decision to ordain an openly gay bishop and to bless gay unions
Parishes Mentioned in the Article