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ALABAMA: Conservative Anglicans heading to Birmingham
GREG GARRISON
News staff writer
THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS
January 8, 2005
This week, Birmingham hosts a gathering of 800 conservative Anglicans, including African and Asian archbishops who have warned about a possible schism if the U.S. Episcopal Church does not renounce its approval of gay bishops and blessing of same-sex unions.
The Anglican Mission in America, a splinter group that includes many ex-Episcopalians, will have a conference Wednesday through Sunday at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel. Organizers say as many as nine Anglican archbishops, or primates, from various countries plan to attend.
The meeting opens at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Sheraton Ballroom with a service led by Archbishop Datuk Yong Ping Chung of Malaysia.
Church growth and mission work are the main topics of seminars Thursday through Saturday, said the Rev. John Richardson, host priest and the rector of St. Peter's Anglican Church in Mountain Brook. St. Peter's formed after a split from St. Luke's Episcopal Church in 2002.
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