What future for Anglicanism?
Friday, 14 September 2007
By Christopher Landau
BBC News

When the American branch of the Anglican church appointed an openly gay bishop in 2003, conservatives said it could lead to a split in the worldwide denomination. Now African churches are taking the matter into their own hands.

People in Mbarara, a town in south-western Uganda, had long been looking forward to the appointment of their new bishop.

Such an appointment would normally pass without comment.

But then the Archbishop of Uganda told them that the consecration ceremony would be for two new bishops, not one - and the second new bishop was a white, American priest. the rest