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Rival Anglican church body forms for North America: Unhappy with "liberal turn"

Dissident Episcopalians in North America unhappy with what they say is the “liberal turn” of the U.S. and Canadian branches of Anglicanism have announced that they are forming an alternative denomination, or province, within the worldwide communion.

The New York–based Episcopal Church and a spokesperson for the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams dismissed the steps taken in early December at a church in Wheaton, Illinois, as irregular and premature at the least.

Fort Worth diocese leaves Episcopal Church: Affiliates with Anglican Province of the Southern Cone

The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth became the fourth to secede from the denomination as delegates voted last month to align with a more conservative branch of the Anglican Communion.

Nearly 80 percent of clergy and lay delegates from the North Texas diocese voted to join the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, based in Argentina. Since last December, the dioceses of San Joaquin, California; Pittsburgh; and Quincy, Illinois, have also left the Episcopal Church to join the Southern Cone.