The archbishop of York on Saturday rebuked some Anglican traditionalists for what he calls ungracious behavior toward Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
Photo Credit: AP Photo Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, left, shakes hands with a bishop at the 48th Quadrennial Session of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in St.
Travis Smith has kept the lawn trimmed outside his suburban New Orleans home but hasn't yet removed the "KKK" or the images of crosses that somebody chemically etched into the grass.
The first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church on Tuesday compared the struggle of gays and lesbians to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Brian Thom, a priest at Church of the Ascension in Twin Falls, was selected Saturday among four vying for the position.
WE DIDN'T see the Archbishop of Canterbury at Sen. Barack Obama's rally in Unity last Friday.
A state judge in Virginia has ruled that conservative congregations that broke away in 2006 from the Episcopal Church and affiliated with the Anglican Church of Nigeria may keep their church properties.
Episcopal leaders from Connecticut heading to England next week for the once-a-decade gathering of the Anglican Communion's 800 bishops are hopeful the conference will result in healed relationships for the troubled church.
Bishop Andrew D. Smith and the state's two suffragan bishops, James E. Curry and Laura J. Ahrens, will leave July 9 for the Lambeth Conference, which is hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and will take place from July 16 through Aug. 4.
The much-anticipated conference is not expected to resolve the ongoing battle within the 77 million member Anglican Communion, however. The fault lines became apparent with the Episcopal Church's 2003 election of New Hampshire's openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, and have since spiraled into a worldwide debate over the future of Anglicanism.
Thousands gathered at Washington National Cathedral on June 28 to be part of history as the Rev. Canon Eugene Taylor Sutton, 54, became the first African American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. "The significance of this consecration goes beyond the Diocese of Maryland," said Joseph Overton, a member of St. James Church in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "It is a statement as to who we are beyond the color of our skin." Adding to the importance of this consecration is the fact that Thomas John Claggett, the first Bishop of Maryland and the first bishop consecrated on American soil, owned slaves while serving as the rector of St. James' Parish in Ann Arundel County. Sutton is a descendant of slaves. Sutton, the 14th bishop of the diocese, succeeds Bishop Robert W. Ihloff, who retired in April 2007 as leader of the 44,000-member diocese. "This is a joyous day to have one of our own elected bishop of the Diocese of Maryland," said Iris Harris of the Diocese of Washington. "I know Eugene well and he is a great person. They are very fortunate to have him." Bernice Arnold of the Diocese of Maryland, who attended the service with her 10-year-old son, said she had never sat through a consecration before but felt "this was a piece of history" that her son should experience. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori served as chief celebrant for the service, during which more than 25 bishops from around the country and throughout the Anglican Communion participated. Delivering the sermon, the Rev. Dr. Barry C. Black, the first African American chaplain of the U.S. Senate, said that being "faithful servants" to Jesus Christ is "what it is all about."
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