It would appear so according to this excerpt from a New York Times article:
Once a decade, hundreds of bishops of the international Anglican Communion meet in Canterbury, England, for the Lambeth Conference.
This summer, in the most tangible demonstration yet of the church’s divide over homosexuality, more than a quarter of the invited bishops are expected to boycott the conference and attend a rival meeting for conservative Anglicans in Jerusalem, called the Global Anglican Future Conference.
Setting the tone for the meetings that begin next week, the conservatives released a strongly worded theological manifesto on Thursday, declaring that they see no possibility for reconciliation with the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada, which have accepted a gay bishop and same-sex unions.
The conservatives say that after years of emergency meetings and ultimatums, they have been “ignored,” “demonized” and “marginalized.” “There is no longer any hope, therefore, for a unified Communion,” the manifesto said.
The Anglican Communion is the third largest affiliation of Christian churches, with 77 million members. The Lambeth Conference is supposed to be one of the four “instruments of Communion” that bind the church together, and more than 800 bishops were invited by the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams. But the archbishops of Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda announced they would boycott Lambeth, (which will be held from July 20 to August 2).
He is another denomination spending a LOT of time and energy focusing on their difference rather than their commonality.....
While Satan laughs.
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I got to see Bp. V.Gene Robinson this past week in NYC. He holds out hope that 1) only a small minority of parishes will actually split with the communion; and that 2) most of the rest will move past this crisis. It should be noted that he is the only Bishop not invited to the conference. He will be there anyway to meet with any of the Bishops who would like to talk.
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