Anglican Communion
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The church had recently changed rules opening the ranks of bishops to women, even as they remained closed elsewhere in the Anglican Communion, an international faith family tied to the Church of England.
From Washington Post
At Canterbury Cathedral — the mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion — a new welcome-center complex is set to open this spring.
From Seattle Times
Andrew McGowan is dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, a historian of early Christianity and a priest of the Anglican Communion.
From Washington Post
Such issues have proved divisive not only between different churches but within denominations, most notably the Anglican Communion, which is in growing danger of a schism over same-sex marriage and gay bishops.
Some Catholics see the Anglican Communion as a test case of the issue’s potential for divisiveness.
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