Breakaway Anglicans tap Atlanta bishop as new leader

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(RNS) The Anglican Church in North America, which broke away from the Episcopal Church in 2009 because of sharp differences over human sexuality and the authority of the Bible, has elected a bishop from Atlanta to become the church’s next leader.

The Rt. Rev. Foley Beach, who currently oversees ACNA’s Diocese of the South, was elected Saturday (June 21) to succeed Archbishop Robert Duncan, the former Episcopal bishop of Pittsburgh who has served as ACNA’s founding archbishop.