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Anglican prelates are in the historic precincts of Canterbury, England, as the world’s largest Protestant denomination struggles to maintain unity. Hosted by the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Justin Welby , lord archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual head of the Anglican Communion , the meeting of primates, as the heads of the 39 national or regional churches historically and ecclesiastically aligned with the Church of England are called, comes at a time of increasingly deep differences. On one hand there is the establishment, underpinned by both the traditional deference shown to the archbishop of Canterbury and the loyalty that inevitably comes with the influence peddling of the wealthy U.S.-based Episcopal Church . The establishment seeks to preserve the Anglican Communion as it exists now, despite the very real possibility that the already deep differences could become a schism with churches in the so-called Global South — Africa, South America and Southeast Asia — ceasing to recogn

Seven bishops have publicly condemned the Anglican Church of Canada for a “fundamental departure from the faith” in voting to recognize homosexual “marriage” but will not leave the church over it. The bishops of six rural dioceses — Algoma, the Arctic (whose suffragen also participated), Athabasca, Caledonia, Saskatchewan and the Yukon — have issued a joint statement condemning last week’s vote for its mismanagement (the motion passed by one vote only after a recount), for departing from both “the Scriptures and Apostolic Tradition of the Church Catholic,” and for threatening “our full communion within the Anglican Church of Canada and with Anglicans throughout the world,” the majority of whom are staunchly opposed to homosexuality. But the seven dissenters made it clear they weren’t considering leaving the ACC as others did a decade ago to form the Anglican Network in Canada (ANIC). “We unambiguously reaffirm,” they declared, “our commitment to Jesus Christ, the Savior of