Sydney welcomes new developments as U.S. splinter groups come together

LEADER: Former Episcopal Church Diocese of Pittsburgh bishop and Common Cause Partnership moderator Robert Duncan talks to reporters at a December 3 briefing announcing the creation of what he called a new Anglican "province in formation." Duncan will become the proposed province's first archbishop and primate. (ENS PHOTO).

Sydney's Archbishop Peter Jensen is welcoming moves to form a new 'umbrella' denomination for disaffected Anglicans in the US and Canada.

Announcing the most concrete steps so far to bring a string of breakaway conservative Anglicans together, leaders of the group unveiled details of its new constitution 3 December at a non-Anglican evangelical church in suburban Chicago. (FULL STORY)

ABC losing its religion

'Fine tooth comb' for Canberra contenders

Two dioceses face shift in direction 

Archbishop Phillip Aspinall is among Anglican Church leaders who're publicly protesting the decision by ABC management to axe the weekly current affairs program, The Religion Report.

Archbishop Aspinall has told The Australian he's worried by the dropping number of journalists specialising in coverage of religion in Australia. . (FULL STORY)

 Nominees on the list to become the next Bishop of Canberra & Goulburn have had to reveal whether they've ever had sex with a parishioner, been charged with tax avoidance or if they've had a history of alcohol abuse.

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Anglicans in two key dioceses are coming to terms with the 'swing of the pendulum' evident in the choice of their new bishop.

The electoral processes of both Wangaratta and Canberra / Goulburn dioceses have chosen new leaders from markedly different church traditions than their predecessors.

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LAMBETH: Keeping Anglicans in touch

New assistant bishop for Newcastle 

LAMBETH: Document's bid to distil a conference's conversation

Keeping your parishioners in touch with news about major events such as the Lambeth Conference can be as simple as adding an extra page to the weekly news-sheet.

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Newcastle's Bishop Brian Farran, has chosen a clergyman with a background in education and structural reform to be his new assistant bishop of Newcastle.

Archdeacon Peter Stuart, 45, is Archdeacon of Adelaide and the Principal of St Barnabas Theological College.(FULL STORY)

The 1998 gathering published volumes of wordy reports and more than a hundred debated motions. This time, after an agenda devoid of voting, the conference's agreed 'communique' is a narrative attempt to capture the 'work-in-progress' of six hundred bishops engaged in discussion over 18 days.

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