Under their new constitution, each of the nine constituent dioceses or groups that would make up the new province could follow its own teachings on women’s ordination. Each congregation would also keep its own property.
Told of this new Anglican entity, David C. Steinmetz, Amos Ragan Kearns professor of the history of Christianity at the Divinity School at Duke University, said in a phone interview, “It’s really an unprecedented and momentous event,” that all of these dissident groups had agreed to bury their differences.
“It’s certainly going to be deplored by one part of the Communion and hailed by another,” Professor Steinmetz said. “Are we going to end up with two families of Anglicans, and if so, are they in communion with each other in any way? There are so many possibilities and geopolitical differences, it’s really hard to predict where this will go.”
Read it all. Please note that this is a longer article that incorporates some of the material in the article previously posted from the Times, but there is much that is new here.
The NYT gets better grades for enumeration than the WP article. Still, its writers could read the LA Times for quantitation. Is it an East Coast superiority thing to not be able to count as accurately as West Coast folk?