In Ontario the great Anglican divide

…things are not the same at St. George’s, and likely never will be.

While about 20 parishioners pray under the old wooden beams of the church, most of the congregation is farther south, inside the natural light and modern teal and white colours of a chapel in the Crossroads Centre along the QEW.

Both congregations still bow before the cross and recite roughly the same 220 words of the essential creed of the Anglican faith, proclaiming their belief “in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth … and in Jesus Christ the only Son of God.” But, on most of the rest of the details, the divide is wide indeed.

Last February, most of the St. George’s congregation broke away from the umbrella of the Niagara Diocese, citing creeping liberalism in the Anglican Church of Canada — the sanctioning of gay marriage being one of the last straws. The congregation voted 128-3 to align with the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC), which adheres to more conservative Christian orthodoxy, and is under the auspices of an Anglican authority based in Argentina.

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