Ruth Gledhill weblog: Newark re-enters Anglican fray

I've been getting a little tired of this whole story, and want to start writing again about Hindus, Muslims, Catholics and the Jewish community. But I couldn't resist a brief posting on this new development, chiefly because the partner of the leading nominee to be the next Bishop of Newark, Jack Spong's old haunt in the US, is Father Paul Burrows, a rather impressive graduate of St Stephen's House who trained there when David Hope was principal and who was ordained into Southwark in 1980. I also did a story for Online. Father Paul has many accomplishments, all listed in his biography on the website of the Church of Advent in San Francisco where he is now rector. Father Paul is also now a naturalised US citizen.

Meanwhile, Pittsburgh is seceding from The Episcopal Church in the hope of forming a tenth, Windsor-compliant province and along with San Joaquin has appealed to Rowan Williams for alternative primatial oversight. Canon Martyn Minns of Truro, Virginia has been elected a bishop by Nigeria to offer alternative oversight to conservatives in the US. These developments are detailed by Thinking Anglicans and Anglican Mainstream. And things now look as though they are going to get dirty. The Episcopal Church leadership has indicated that where a seccession takes place, they could declare the diocese vacant and beging the process to elect another bishop. the rest