Brazilian deposed bishop and wife killed at home
Conservative Brazilian bishop Robinson Cavalcanti, who broke away
from the established Anglican church, and his wife Miriam were killed
February 26 at their home in Olinda in northeastern Brazil, said his
diocese, known as Anglican Church–Diocese of Recife.
Reports from
conservative Anglican media said that Cavalcanti was returning from a
parish visit and that the couple's adopted son, Eduardo, was a suspect
in the stabbing deaths.
After the U.S. Episcopal Church in 2003
approved the election of a gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New
Hampshire, Cavalcanti asked the House of Bishops in Brazil to express
its opposition. Brazil's bishops refused, and Cavalcanti pulled away
from the official Anglican Church of Brazil.
