Conservative Anglicans Push Formation of Rival American Body

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20081119/conservative-anglicans-push-formation-of-rival-american-body.htm

[The Christian Post] 20 Nov 2008--Anglican leaders who have split from The Episcopal Church plan to take a major step in the formation of what will essentially be a separate and rival body by releasing a proposed constitution next month.

Leaders of the Common Cause Partnership, a federation representing more than 100,000 Anglican Christians in North America, will unveil the draft to the public on Dec. 3 at Wheaton Evangelical Free Church in Wheaton, Ill., as they reaffirm biblical truth and Anglican tradition – two things they believe the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada have abandoned.

The new Anglican church structure in North America is expected to be recognized by several bishops, mainly from the Global South. But the Common Cause leaders do not expect Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, to immediately recognize the body.