From ENS (Wait, I thought the women clergy from the "Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh" were all transferred to the Southern Cone.)
A week after failing to convince the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone to allow its dioceses to ordain women to the priesthood, the Diocese of Uruguay has voted to seek affiliation with another province.
Uruguayan Anglicans had waited for nine years since the last time the province was asked to allow women's ordination and "felt … that a patient wait would be rewarded," said Diocese of Bolivia Bishop Frank Lyons in a statement released by the Anglican Communion News Service.
Clergy members of the Southern Cone's 10th triennial synod Nov. 4 refused to approve the canonical changes required to allow for the ordination of women to the priesthood. The changes, which required a two-thirds majority in all three houses, were approved by the bishops and laity. Uruguay ordains women to the diaconate.
The Diocese of Uruguay synod met Nov. 12 in the capital city of Montevideo and decided by a simple majority vote in orders to quit the province, according to Lyons.
The diocese wants to transfer from the Southern Cone within the year, he said, adding that if permission is not given, an appeal would be made to the Anglican Consultative Council to arrange for oversight, following provincial canons.
Uruguay has been a diocese within the Southern Cone since its formation. The province, known locally as Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur de America, officially was formed in 1981 following decades of Anglican missionary work in South America. Today, the Southern Cone includes about 22,000 members in seven dioceses throughout Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, making it one of the smallest provinces in the Anglican Communion in terms of numbers, yet it is one of the largest geographically.
More here-
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_125738_ENG_HTM.htm
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