Anglican bishop of Bolivia in town
By Sandi Dolbee
UNION-TRIBUNE RELIGION & ETHICS EDITOR
January 27, 2007

When some conservative congregations and their priests began seceding from the U.S. Episcopal Church, they transferred their allegiance to sympathetic bishops elsewhere in the global Anglican Communion.

One of these recipients: Anglican Bishop Frank Lyons of Bolivia, who has five churches back home (counting one that will open later this year) but supervises 35 breakaway congregations, by his count, in the U.S.

This hasn't made the 52-year-old, American-born Lyons popular among Episcopal bishops. Chicago Bishop William Persell has called Lyons “schismastic,” and San Diego Bishop James Mathes says he has “exacerbated the conflict.” A church spokesman in Washington, D.C., once suggested Lyons is using the conflict to promote himself. the rest