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A 15 page research paper that examines the debate and schism that has occurred in the global Anglican Communion due to the insistence of the American Episcopal Church on ordaining openly gay bishops and consecrating same-sex marriages. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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from the parent body to form independent alliances. According to sources, there are over 600 independent congregations who are "preserving and promoting the historic faith and worship of Anglicanism" in
the U.S.1 The cause of this strife within the American branch of the Anglican Church is primarily over the belief of the breakaway congregations that the Episcopal Church leadership has
departed from traditional Anglican dogma by appointing an openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, who was elected Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003. As a result of this movement, which seeks
to severe ties with the Episcopal Church, a number of parishes are endeavoring to establish different ecclesiastical arrangements that tie them to the Anglican Communion, but are separate from those
of the Episcopal Church. Some Anglican Communion provinces, several of which are located in Africa, are working with these dissenting churches to establish a separate identity for the dissenting
Episcopal congregations. The following literature review will, first of all, present the history of this debate and the issues involved, which presents the position that the schism between the dissenting
Anglican congregations and the Episcopal Church are too severe to ever be healed. However, the reviewed literature also shows that there is common ground between the dissenting congregations and, therefore,
it is possible for these breakaway churches to form a communion or fellowship that can participate as a fully-fledged member of the global Anglican Communion. As this suggests, this project
is intended to propose a viable solution that would bring the multiple jurisdictions of the Anglican Church into one fellowship communion. Background information The Anglican Communion consists of 70
million members and is the third largest denomination of Christian believers worldwide, as it comes just after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.2 The Anglican Church originated
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