"I have been through hell for the past 2½ years," said Russell, adding that he lost his license to work as a priest, his job as a counselor in a public high school and is broke as a result of what he called false accusations.

However, the Rt. Rev. Jeffrey N. Steenson, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, said the accusations against him were dropped only because of a statute of limitations of about 15 years that exists in legal canons in the Episcopal Church.

Rowan Douglas Williams (1950) was born into a Welsh-speaking family in Swansea. He was a university lecturer and professor in Cambridge and Oxford until 1992, and after that Bishop and Archbishop in Wales. He wrote books on, among other topics, the heretic Arius and contemporary Russian-Orthodox theology. The Archbishop is married, to a theologian; they have an eighteen-year old daughter and a ten-year old son.

Today's consecration of the Rev. Martyn Minns in Abuja, Nigeria, will make him the missionary bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, established by the Church of Nigeria to provide a haven for Episcopalians alienated by the U.S. Episcopal Church.

Minns, 63, is rector of Truro Church in Fairfax.

The Roundtable drafted and approved proposed articles to create the Common Cause Federation which would formalize the relationship of the partners and allow for other orthodox Anglican groups to apply for membership. The representatives at the meeting will now take the three above-mentioned documents back to their constituent bodies for approval and adoption.