A Worldwide Anglican Melee

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/04/AR2008120403851_pf.html

[Washington Post] 5 Dec 2008--Episcopal Church experts and disaffected conservatives predicted yesterday that intense lobbying would soon begin over dissidents' plans to leave the church and create a new Anglican community in the United States.

The two sides will try to convince Anglican leaders worldwide either of the value or the cost of a second branch of the U.S. church, one that would be based less on geography than on theology.

Bishop Martyn Minns, a Virginia-based leader of the breakaway movement, confidently predicted victory. "I think we've got a good basis of support for what we're doing," he said.

But experts on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion said approval is by no means guaranteed.