Who’s split from whom?

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[California Catholic Daily] 11 dec 2007--The Episcopal diocese of San Joaquin, centered in Fresno, has voted to break its ties with the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Delegates from the diocese made this decision at the annual diocesan convention that met Saturday at St. James’s Cathedral in Fresno.

The Episcopal Church has long been divided over such issues as women’s ordination, same-sex marriage blessings, and the ordination of homosexuals, especially to the episcopacy. Matters came to a head in 2003 when V. Gene Robinson, an openly homosexual man who left his wife for his male partner, was consecrated bishop of New Hampshire. In 1998, the Anglican Communion reaffirmed its traditional teaching forbidding homosexual acts, and in Feb. 2007, the Anglican bishops meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, called on the Episcopal Church to come into line with Anglican teaching on sexuality and to provide a parallel church structure for “conservatives” within the Episcopal Church.