January 18, 2010 Woman as candidate for bishop 'significant' says campaigner

The chairperson of a group campaigning for women bishops says she is disappointed that the Rev. Alison Peden was not elected Britain's first female Anglican bishop but that it is, "significant and encouraging" for a woman to have been one of the three candidates that the Scottish Episcopal Church considered.

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January 13, 2010 Election to decide if Britain to have first female Anglican bishop

Britain might soon have its first female Anglican bishop, serving the 38,000-member Scottish Episcopal Church, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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January 13, 2010 Bishops recommend Anglican Covenant 'for consideration' by General Synod

The Canadian House of Bishops has approved a resolution recommending that the final text of the proposed Anglican Communion Covenant be presented for consideration to the General Synod meeting in June.

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January 9, 2010 'We just wish it would all go away'

There is “general pessimism” among bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada about the potential for “any clear resolution” of the divisive issue of sexuality at the church’s upcoming General Synod in Halifax this June. This is one of the many observations recently made by two pastoral visitors from the U.K. They were deputized by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams attend the four-day meeting of the House of Bishops last November in Niagara., Ont and report back.

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January 1, 2010 Working together

At the Vatican in Rome, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI reaffirmed their “shared will to continue and to consolidate the ecumenical relationship between the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Church of Rome.” Plans for an Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), to begin later this year, are underway.

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December 28, 2009 Pro-Mugabe cleric 'continues pressure' to oust Zimbabwe Anglicans

Anglicans in Zimbabwe say that clerics loyal to President Robert Mugabe have marshalled the national police to disrupt services again in the country's capital city here.

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December 9, 2009 New bishop for Cuba to be announced in January

A new bishop will be appointed for the Episcopal Diocese of Cuba. This, after two special electoral synods failed to elect a successor to Bishop Miguel Tamayo Zaldivar, who plans to retire early next year after serving as interim bishop for six years.

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December 7, 2009 Archbishop of Canterbury warns on election of U.S. lesbian bishop

The election of an openly lesbian priest, who lives with her partner, as a bishop in the U.S. Episcopal (Anglican) Church is likely to cause further problems in the worldwide Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has said.

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December 7, 2009 Los Angeles diocese elects openly gay bishop suffragan: Mary Douglas Glasspool

The 114th annual convention of the Diocese of Los Angeles made history for the second time in as many days on Dec. 5, electing an openly gay candidate, Rev. Mary Douglas Glasspool, as bishop suffragan, pending the required consents from the majority of the church's other dioceses.

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December 7, 2009 Los Angeles diocese elects Diane Jardine Bruce as first woman bishop

Canon Diane Jardine Bruce became the first woman elected a bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles on Dec. 4, pending the required consents.

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