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[Global South Anglican] 19 Feb 2008--Eighty-six per cent of participating parishioners at Metchosin’s St. Mary the Incarnation Anglican Church voted yesterday to separate from their national body over the issue of same-sex marriage, part of a pattern that has developed across the country.
Meanwhile, St. Matthew’s Anglican parish in Abbotsford became the second Lower Mainland congregation in a week to split from the Vancouver-area diocese overseen by Bishop Michael Ingham.
The Abbotsford parish followed in the footsteps of Vancouver’s St. John’s Shaughnessy—the largest Anglican congregation in Canada—which voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to break with Ingham, primarily over the issue of same-sex blessings.
St. Mary will now align with the parallel Anglican Network in Canada, said Rev. Andrew Hewlett, the church’s assistant priest.
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