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Article: For Episcopal Church, fissure deepens - Priest, flock to align with African group
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2007
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In a dramatic illustration of the unhappiness among conservative
Episcopalians in the United States, an Episcopal priest from the
North Shore has decided to become a bishop of the Anglican Church of
Kenya.
The Rev. William L. Murdoch, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church
in West Newbury, will fly to Nairobi next month for his consecration
as a Kenyan bishop, then return to Massachusetts to minister to other
disaffected conservatives who are leaving the Episcopal Church over
its 2003 decision to ordain an openly gay priest as the bishop of New
Hampshire.
Murdoch's congregation, which averages about 300 worshipers each
Sunday, will have to turn over its three buildings and a $1 million ...