Bp. Bena ordains priest for CNY CANA congregation

Ordination spotlights Anglican church rift
Group that broke from Episcopal Diocese ordains a priest today in Geddes.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
By Renée K. Gadoua
Staff writer, Syracuse Post-Standard

Jeffrey Altman will be ordained an Anglican priest today in a ceremony that reflects Central New York's role in the nationwide growth of a separate Anglican church in the United States.

Altman will lead Sunday services at Westside Anglican Fellowship, a Geddes congregation of about 25 people who began worshipping together after their former congregation, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Syracuse, split from the local Episcopal Diocese. They meet at Syracuse Vineyard Church.

It is one of dozens of breakaway congregations that have started Anglican communities in the five years since the U.S. Episcopal Church consecrated an openly gay bishop. Four groups from three churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York have split from the 2.2 million-member national Episcopal Church. the rest

Ordination of Jeffrey Altman

Westside Anglican Fellowship

Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 5:00 pm

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Syracuse Vineyard Church

312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse NY

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(image is part of a triptych painted by Marti Fuller for today's ordination)