Archbishop of Canterbury calls for humility as row over sexuality threatens to fracture Anglican Communion
The Associated Press
Published: February 18, 2007

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania: The spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion on Sunday called for bishops to feel humility before God, as a fierce debate over homosexuality and Scripture threatens to break apart the Christian fellowship.

Leaders of the world's 77 million Anglicans, in Tanzania for a closed conference that ends Monday, traveled by boat from the mainland for a service at Zanzibar's Christ Cathedral in this predominantly Muslim archipelago on the Indian Ocean.

"There is one thing that a bishop should say to another bishop," Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told the packed Anglican cathedral, as dozens of others listened outside under white tents. "... That I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great savior."

The worldwide Anglican Communion is struggling to heal a rift over ordaining gays and blessing same-sex unions, which reached a crisis in 2003 when the U.S. Episcopal Church — the American wing of the fellowship — consecrated its first gay bishop. the rest