Who Can Expel the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion?
Prefaceby Lisa Fox, in consultation with the Reverend Canon Robert J. Brooks

Much has been written and said by some people regarding the desire to expel the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion. Your humble editor never paused to ask exactly who has the power to do so – aside from the obvious and oft-noted fact that being in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury is the signal that a church is Anglican.

There has been a fair bit of discussion about the Episcopal Church constitution as it relates to such novel concepts as "alternative primatial oversight" or "submission" to the primates of the Anglican Communion. The broader questions, though, are in the context of the Anglican Communion and our dependence, interdependence, and/or independence from it. the rest

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