http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4231023.ece
[Times Online] 28.06.08--The Anglican Communion will be split tomorrow when conservatives representing more than half its total membership will announce the formation of a new orthodox body to be a stronghold against liberal views. It will be schism in all but name.
The new global Anglican fellowship will act within the legal boundaries of provinces such the Church of England that make up the existing Communion but, in North America, it will declare its independence from the ultra-liberal Episcopal Church and from the Anglican church in Canada.
The fellowship represents a direct challenge to the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the Primate of the US Episcopal Church, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
Millions of Anglicans and entire provinces in the Global South - an Anglican grouping of 20 provinces that embraces India, Africa, the West Indies and the Middle East - want nothing more to do with their former colonial masters who have adopted a theology that they find too liberal.
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