Ranges Community Church

The Age has reported the formal split of the Anglican union by the Arch Bishop of Sydney Peter Jenson.

Speaking in Jerusalem before the opening today of a conference of 1000 conservative Anglican leaders, including 280 bishops, Dr Peter Jensen said the split had been triggered by the ordination in the US five years ago of the gay bishop, the Reverend Gene Robinson. “What the Americans did in 2003, and what the Canadians did, was to rip the communion,” Dr Jensen said.

“If we’re talking about schism and the break-up of the communion, that’s where it starts and that is where the responsibility is.”

I thought that this would have happened a long time ago, after Jenson spoke about a significant rift in 2006

What will be interesting will be the allegiance of diocese, and parishes.  Maybe Jenson took his time waiting to make sure parishes/diocese would follow his lead. It will be interesting times ahead for Anglicans, probably a distraction from the Gospel I suspect.