Wannabe Anglicans to meet on forming new province - Again

BEDFORD — Representatives from breakaway Episcopal congregations and dioceses — bound together in opposition to gay priests and same-sex marriage as well as in their desire to preach the Gospel — will gather here this week to create a new Anglican province.

Some say the provincial assembly gathered at St. Vincent’s Episcopal Cathedral Church in Bedford may create something geographically unprecedented in the United States: a second Anglican province.

One province would be the new and theologically conservative Anglican Church in North America; the other, the established and theologically liberal U.S. Episcopal Church.

Voting participants of the assembly, from the United States and Canada, will decide on a constitution and church laws for the new province. They will then return home and consider later whether to join it.

Going forward, a major question will be whether Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, seen as a key figure in the Anglican Communion, will recognize the new province as a member of the communion’s body of 77 million worshippers. See

Breakaway Anglicans to meet on forming new province

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