[Bob] Duncan said 22 of the 38 Anglican provinces have broken or impaired communion with the Episcopal Church.
“We think many of them will begin to recognize this province,” Duncan said. “We stand in the mainstream of Anglicanism and Christianity.”
Alan Crippen, spokesman for the breakaway Grace Church and St. Stephen Parish in Colorado Springs, said the groups behind the new province have provided a safe haven, a sanctuary, for former Episcopalians alienated by the church’s increasingly liberal views.
“It’s become increasingly clear that these differences weren’t going to be worked out,” Crippen said.