Confrontation Reveals Episcopal Split. Conservatives Attempt to Develop a Parallel, Supportive Church Hierarchy. By Caryle Murphy. June 1, 2001 at 8:00 p.m. EDT ...

Even by the unfettered standards of Britain’s Anglican hierarchy, the Bishop of Southwark is known as a bold and outspoken churchman. In addition to sponsoring a host of adventurous urban ...

LONDON, July 23 -- Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams, an outspoken liberal who has been a sharp critic of U.S. foreign policy and American corporations, was chosen today to be the next archbishop ...

St. James was one of about 100 Episcopal parishes that broke off relations with the national church after Robinson’s ordination. Disputes over the real estate landed in courts across the country ...

A former Anglican bishop from Wales will be received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church next month and serve as a priest ... had been a prominent member of the Anglican hierarchy.

In the 1760s, as dissenting religions grew, the Anglican hierarchy went from discrimination to outright persecution. Dissenting ministers were beat, chased with dogs, shot at.

The group broke with the Anglican hierarchy in 1990 because of objections to the ordination of women and other heterodox actions undertaken by some of the churches that belong to the Anglican ...

This should comfort at least one side in the debates now raging within the Church of England--particularly the several hundred Anglican priests who vow Sign In Home ...

The Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris, who was the first woman to be ordained a bishop in the Episcopal Church of the United States — indeed, in its parent body, the worldwide Anglican Communion — an ...

Episcopal hierarchy was not in his original plans as an education major at Texas State University in the late 1970s. ... Robinson was the first Episcopal bishop in an openly gay relationship.