A Worldwide Anglican Melee

Conservative Revolt Expected to Roil International Communion
By Jacqueline L. Salmon and Michelle Boorstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, December 5, 2008

Episcopal Church experts and disaffected conservatives predicted yesterday that intense lobbying would soon begin over dissidents' plans to leave the church and create a new Anglican community in the United States.

The two sides will try to convince Anglican leaders worldwide either of the value or the cost of a second branch of the U.S. church, one that would be based less on geography than on theology.

Bishop Martyn Minns, a Virginia-based leader of the breakaway movement, confidently predicted victory. "I think we've got a good basis of support for what we're doing," he said. the rest