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BREAKING: Episcopal Church suspended from Anglican Communion
Religious News Service ^ | January 14, 2016 | Kimberly Winston

Posted on 01/14/2016 12:50:28 PM PST by C19fan

The Anglican Communion voted to censure its American branch, the Episcopal Church, during a meeting in Canterbury, England, called to reflect on the future of the communion.

The vote Thursday (Jan. 14) to suspend the Episcopal Church from voting and decision-making for a period of three years was leaked a day ahead of a press conference that had been scheduled for Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at religionnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: anglican; ecusa; episcopal; homosexualagenda; protestant; religiousleft; schism
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1 posted on 01/14/2016 12:50:28 PM PST by C19fan
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The alternative was to watch the whole global Church of England split down the middle.
2 posted on 01/14/2016 12:52:17 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: C19fan

Good.


3 posted on 01/14/2016 12:52:43 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
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To: C19fan

I’m Catholic. I used to joke with my friend, who is an Episcopalian, that he was more Catholic than I was.

Wonder what is going on.


4 posted on 01/14/2016 12:53:05 PM PST by austinaero
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To: C19fan

This hasn’t been confirmed.


5 posted on 01/14/2016 12:53:40 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
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To: C19fan

My Parrish is Anglican. no pro death no “gay” “marriage” no B.s.

Thank you.


6 posted on 01/14/2016 12:53:54 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: C19fan

The Ugandan Archbishop forced the issue by walking out of the discussions.


7 posted on 01/14/2016 12:54:09 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Fido969

Yes, it has. Statement here: http://www.primates2016.org/articles/2016/01/14/statement-primates-2016/
Not an expulsion, more a restriction on what the ECUSA can vote on and a bar on representing the communion to other groups. (See paragraph 7).


8 posted on 01/14/2016 12:56:22 PM PST by PAR35
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yep. High Church might swim the Tiber and low Church would be happy on their own.

All the squishes would probably just stop going period.


9 posted on 01/14/2016 12:57:24 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: C19fan

The linked article was interesting in that it didn’t indicate what changes needed to take place to reverse this vote in three years. If its a censure, what is the larger communion expected to reverse it? The article doesn’t say.


10 posted on 01/14/2016 1:00:00 PM PST by johniegrad
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To: C19fan

Good, might possibly wake up some Episcopals that the ECUSA has been run right off the (Biblical) rails

(but so has the UK Anglican church, what about them?)


11 posted on 01/14/2016 1:00:39 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the thatD's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant)
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To: johniegrad

Expected should be expecting.


12 posted on 01/14/2016 1:00:43 PM PST by johniegrad
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Kevin Eckstrom, director of communications for Washington National Cathedral, the seat of newly-installed Presiding Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry, said:

It is not unlike a couple who are having marital problems and are sleeping in separate bedrooms. Maybe now they are going to formalize the separation.

Yes. Maybe they're going to get a divorce.

13 posted on 01/14/2016 1:02:40 PM PST by Savage Beast (Though obvious, it was not easy for the Romans to perceive the wild instability of the Imperium.)
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To: C19fan

bookmark


14 posted on 01/14/2016 1:03:14 PM PST by servantboy777
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Interesting. And I thought the Anglican Church was even less Orthodox and more new age than the Episcopalian. I had that wrong.


15 posted on 01/14/2016 1:05:18 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution. Go Cruz.)
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To: austinaero
I am surprised that the Anglicans have shown some balls. I was asked to organize a demo against MS Robinson when he was elected.

I asked them to pull a permit, I am not Episcopal, to avoid the outside influence claim. They flunked all talk no action.

16 posted on 01/14/2016 1:07:27 PM PST by Little Bill (o)
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To: austinaero
I thought Spong was dead? His insanity lives on.

When the Episcopals in NH voted for it's first gay bishop, an "unrecovered" alcoholic who ditched his wife and kids to shack up with a guy, the writing was on the wall for ECUSA, imho.

17 posted on 01/14/2016 1:07:38 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: austinaero

I am surprised that the Anglicans have shown some balls. I was asked to organize a demo against MS Robinson when he was elected.

I asked them to pull a permit, I am not Episcobal, to avoid the outside influence claim. They flunked all talk no action.


18 posted on 01/14/2016 1:08:52 PM PST by Little Bill (o)
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To: Savage Beast
>>Yes. Maybe they're going to get a divorce. <<

Conservative Anglican Churches poppin up across the nation...already divorced. lol

My former priest...now Bishop help to lead the charge for an expansion of Anglican parishes. Good stuff.

19 posted on 01/14/2016 1:14:17 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: lightman

Would that the ELS/WELS/LCMS take such action with the ELKA*.

*Evangelical Lookalikes of Klan Association


20 posted on 01/14/2016 1:14:27 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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