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Ernest
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« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2007, 06:31:59 PM » |
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Proposed history for the Church of Antillia
Anglican churches were formally established only after the formal annexation of the island by the British crown in 1815, but Anglican services were held prior to that during of the occupations of the island by British forces in various wars. The Church of England in Antillia was never an established church as by the time there was Anglo majority on the island, the idea of having an established church had fallen in disrepute. The Church of England in Antillia was subordinated to the Anglican Diocese of Newfoundland upon the creation of that diocese in 1839, with the Archdeacon of Port Valjean as the head of the Church of England in Antillia at that time. In 1860, in conjunction with the creation of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada (and the transfer of the Diocese of Newfoundland to it) a second deaconate was established in Alberton. During the next decades additional deaconates would be established until there was one in each province, even those such as Clairive, which had a small enough Anglo population that the deaconate and the parish were one and the same. In 1925, it was decided to promote both Antillia and Bermuda (also then part of the Diocese of Newfoundland) to diocesan status and to make the Anglican Churches of Antillia and Bermuda extra-provincial dioceses subordinate to the Archbishop of Canterbury. There was some controversy over where to place the new bishop's seat, but it was finally decided in 1931 to place it in the capital, Alberton instead of Port Valjean when the government of New Ulster province offered the church land for the cathedral and to defray a portion of the expenses of building it so as to provide jobs during the depression, an offer Limeria, with its significant Francophone Catholic minority population, was unwilling to meet, thereby settling the issue. Under the first dictatorship, the name was changed to simply the Church of Antillia, but it remained a member of the Anglican Communion.
The Church of Antillia does not ordain either women or openly gay men as priests, but it has refrained from joining those members of the Anglican Communion seeking to punish or expel the Episcopal Church in the United States of America over the issue of ordination of gay priests and bishops. The issue of the ordination of women is likely to be raised again at the next synod, as it has been at the last few synods. The church has informally decided that until and unless there is civil gay marriage, it will defer the issue of gay priests as it has a strong institutional bias towards married priests, and having "married" priests that are not married under civil law would be awkward.
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