Sunday, April 23, 2017

African and Asian church leaders threaten to ‘plant’ a bishop in Britain to defy Welby on gay Christians

From The Daily Mail-

Conservative Anglican archbishops from Africa and Asia are plotting to create a new ‘missionary’ bishop to lead traditionalists in the UK – after warning that the Church of England is becoming too liberal on homosexuality.

The rebel archbishops are set to give the green light to the controversial plan at a crucial meeting in Africa this week in defiance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
Insiders said the move was the ‘nuclear option’ as it would represent a highly provocative intervention into the Church of England by foreign archbishops and a direct challenge to the authority of Archbishop Welby, who is nominal head of Anglicans worldwide.


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4436436/African-Asian-church-leaders-threaten-defy-Welby.html#ixzz4f45iwXKt



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