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Article: Conservative bishops propose a competing North American Anglican church.(USA)(conservative members of the Episcopal Church to set-up another congregation)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 3, 2008
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Byline: Jane Lampman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Five years after the Episcopal Church consecrated the first openly gay bishop, traditionalists are moving to create a separate and competing North American Anglican church.
On Wednesday, a network of groups from the United States and Canada will unveil a draft constitution for a unified entity that they hope will be recognized by Anglicans elsewhere in the world. They were encouraged to take this step by a group of leaders in the global Anglican Communion who say the Episcopal Church (TEC) - the US branch of Anglicanism - has abandoned traditional Christian teaching and practice.
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