An Episcopal switch reflects divisions in church
Former Albany assistant bishop joins group that opposes policy on gays
By MARC PARRY, Staff writer
Albany Times-Union
Wednesday, March 7, 2007

ALBANY -- A retired assistant bishop in the Albany Episcopal Diocese has joined a controversial splinter group at the forefront of a worldwide fight over the future of the Episcopal church.

Former Albany Suffragan Bishop David Bena will minister to the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, a U.S. branch of the Nigerian church set up by the anti-gay Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola.

Akinola created the convocation last year as a refuge for conservative American Episcopalians disaffected with the U.S. Episcopal Church. A spiritual war has engulfed the Episcopal Church, the American wing of the worldwide Anglican Communion, since the 2003 consecration of V. Gene Robinson as its first openly gay bishop. the rest

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