Posted on 05/15/2010 5:41:03 PM PDT by george76
Seven years after the Episcopal Church caused an uproar by consecrating its first openly gay bishop, it has done the same thing again -- only this time with a woman.
The Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool, of Baltimore, was ordained and consecrated on Saturday, making her the second openly gay bishop in church history and one of the first two female bishops in the Diocese of Los Angeles' 114-year history.
Breakaway Episcopal conservatives have formed a rival church, the Anglican Church in North America.
Several overseas Anglicans have been pressuring Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans, to officially recognize the new conservative entity.
In 2004, Anglican leaders asked the Episcopal Church for a moratorium on electing another gay bishop while they tried to prevent a permanent break in the fellowship.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
Sad to watch.
The LCMS holds firm to sound doctrine. Any fleeing ELCA’s are welcome. My brother’s ELCA church joined the Lutheran Church Mission for Christ, another conservative home for those fleeing the apostacy in the ELCA.
1st I was wondering why our Lutheran pingmaster was sending us here....then
“The Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool, of Baltimore,”
As a native, this stuck out at me right away. Great. More gays in welfare town. More liberalism. That’s what Balto needs.
May I suggest she have a name change to “Cesspool”?
BTTT
Can’t be said often enough.
I hope you went to a faithful congregation as I did.
“I hope you went to a faithful congregation as I did.”
I left the USSA before the Obamination, and Marxist rule.
Here, I have only the Catholic church, no Anglican.
I do not expect to ever return to what once was America.
You might be prophetic there.
Like I posted above the ping banner...because the Episcopal Church is one of the ELCA's "Full Communion Partners".
A "rival" church only in liberal minds, and there is more than one. I left ECUSE for one such province 27 years ago, now part of a three-province Anglican communion in North America. We do not consider ourselves "rivals" with TEC (why would we want to be rivals with apostacy?) but rather the Church continuing.
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