Barred Anglican Bishop: Communion Torn at Deepest Level
By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post Reporter
Wed, May. 23 2007

The exclusion of two wayward bishops from joining a major Anglican conference next year has placed all the attention on the invitation list. But one of the bishops says the crisis Anglican churches are facing is not just about a few bishops.

"While the immediate attention is focused on the invitation list, it should be remembered that this crisis in the Anglican Communion is not about a few individual bishops but about a worldwide Communion that is torn at its deepest level," said the Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, missionary bishop of CANA (Convocation of Anglicans in North America) – an orthodox Anglican splinter group and offshoot of the Church of Nigeria.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the Anglican Communion’s spiritual leader, sent out the first set of invitations to over 850 bishops for Lambeth 2008 – the church body’s global decennial gathering – on Tuesday. Minns, who now oversees some 34 orthodox Anglican congregations in CANA that are dissident with the Episcopal Church, and openly gay bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire were not invited. the rest