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	Encyclopedia: Diocese of New Westminster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Diocese of New Westminster is an Anglican Church of Canada diocese in British Columbia, based in Vancouver.
		The diocese is comprised of the Regional Districts of Greater Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Sunshine Coast, Powell River and part of the Regional District of Squamish-Lillooet (including Squamish and Whistler).
		The diocese is at the centre of an international controversy within the Anglican Communion due to its decision to bless same sex unions.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Diocese-of-New-Westminster (224 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Sa-Sp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1890, he was elected a member of the new legislative council and was colonial secretary in Forrest's (q.v.) ministry from December 1890 to October 1892, when he resigned to become president of the legislative council.
		The Adelaide diocese had been presented with some land in the city by W. Leigh, the income from which became very useful for general diocesan purposes, and by the liberality of William Allen the pastoral aid fund was instituted.
		He was president of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1913, of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Chemical Institute in 1922-3, and of the chemistry section of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science at the meeting held in Wellington in 1923.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogSa-Sp.html (21609 words)

	Integrity/Toronto ~ INTEGRATOR volume 2003-3
		The diocese of New Westminster, at its synods in 1998, 2001 and 2002, repeatedly asked their bishop, Michael Ingham, to authorise a rite of blessing for same-sex couples; the votes being by increasing majorities each time.
		New Westminster synod members feel that they have put their hand to the plough, and are not now going to turn back.
		Last year's decision by the Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster to ask their bishop for a rite for the blessing of persons in committed, life-long, same-sex unions created an occasion for reflection and discernment among Anglicans in the diocese, in Canada, and throughout the Anglican Communion.
	toronto.integritycanada.org /integrator/i33.html (3829 words)

	Chronology of events relating to Consultations by the Diocese of New Westminster with the Wider Anglican Church on ...
		February – A diocesan “Day of Dialogue on Homosexuality” is held in the Diocese of New Westminster with several hundred participating.
		New guidelines concerning the ordination and pastoral care of homosexuals are adopted in October.
		May - Diocesan Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster votes 179 to 170 to request Bishop Ingham to authorize clergy in the diocese to bless covenanted same-sex unions, subject to such conditions as the bishop deems necessary.
	www.anglican.ca /about/accp/nwh.htm (2324 words)

	DIOCESE OF CALEDONIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Primate of All Nigeria, the Most Revd Peter J. Akinola D.D., representing 17 million Anglicans in Nigeria spread over 80 dioceses, served by 81 Bishops, and 10 Archbishops has severed communion with Bishop Ingham and the diocese of New Westminster.
		By his actions, the Bishop of New Westminster has chosen to ignore the serious risks his course of action poses for the unity of the Anglican Communion.
		It is therefore with profound sadness that I advise you that I consider the Bishop of New Westminster’s actions to have resulted in impairment of the communion between himself and this diocese.
	www.caledonia.anglican.org /PastoralLetJun2003.htm (435 words)

	acns3453 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To date, the six parishes (of 80 in the diocese) are the only ones to have held Vestry meetings and requested that their churches become a place where same sex blessings occur.
		The rite of blessing of homosexual couples is the pastoral response which the Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster had requested three times - in 1998, 2001, and 2002 - and to which he gave his consent last year.
		In taking this step, the diocese is affirming our belief "as Christians that homosexual persons are created in the image and likeness of God and have a full and equal claim, with all other persons, upon the love, acceptance, concern and pastoral care of the church.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/articles/34/50/acns3453.html (986 words)

	News Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster voted for Motion 9 in 1998 and in 2001, and for Motion 7 on June 15, 2002.
		The Diocese of New Westminster is the first in the Anglican Communion to officially endorse such blessings, and bishops from around the world have said this vote could lead to further division within the global Anglican Church...
		We, as clergy of the diocese of New Westminster in the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia (part of the Anglican Church of Canada), are appealing to you for the provision of alternative episcopal oversight as per the provisions of Lambeth (1998) for intervention in cases of pastoral emergency which cannot be addressed within a province...
	www.stgeorgeslowville.org /Same%20Sex%20Blessings.htm (6450 words)

	Anglican Mainstream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Bishop of New Westminster, Michael Ingham, notwithstanding the views expressed by the recent Primates’ meeting in Brazil, has granted permission and issued a liturgy for same-sex blessings, and at least one of his clergy has conducted such a ceremony.
		To the clergy of the Diocese of Saskatchewan:
		As a senior bishop of a diocese in the same Ecclesiastical Province as New Westminster, he felt he was called to this ministry.
	www.anglican-mainstream.net /news12.htm (1982 words)

	THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA AND HOMOSEXUALITY
		Perhaps motivated by the government decision, the New Westminster Synod narrowly passed a motion (179 to 170) to ask that priests be allowed to bless homosexual relationships.
		But the response of this diocese is a radical and unilateral departure from the teaching of Scripture and the mind of the Anglican Church.
		A diocese does not have the mandate to raise itself above the spiritual unity of the Anglican Communion and the authority of Scripture on which it is based.
	www.religioustolerance.org /hom_ang3.htm (2162 words)

	VirtueOnline-News - News - CANADA: Orthodox Vancouver Anglicans Welcome Report
		The New Westminster decision, along with an August 2003 decision in the United States to affirm the election of an openly gay man as bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire, has led to unprecedented division throughout the 77-miillion member Communion.
		But, within the Diocese of New Westminster, ACiNW parishes are a minority, and are required to accept the consequences of actions and decisions not of their choosing, and in most cases, affecting the sustainability of the churches and their identity as Anglicans in full communion with the worldwide church.
		There is a misperception in many quarters that the decisions in New Westminster have led to little more than a handful of negative feelings, uncertainties, and anxieties on the part of orthodox Anglicans, most of which, it is assumed, will soon pass away with the proper administration of pastoral care.
	www.virtueonline.org /portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1516 (3732 words)

	General Convention 2003 :: American Anglican Council - A Place to Stand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Diocese of New Westminster has been forced to reduce payments to the national office.
		The Diocese responded to their financial crisis by eliminating a hospital chaplaincy position and may be forced to eliminate a second.
		New Westminster provides a real life example of the potentially devastating financial impact for ECUSA if Convention approves these measures," said the Rev. Canon David C. Anderson, AAC President.
	www.aplacetostand.org /dspnews.cfm?id=17 (623 words)

	New West Minister: Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Blessing of same sex unions done openly in the Diocese of New Westminster have received a great deal of condemnation from more conservative provinces of the Anglican Communion, while many similar blessings done as “pastoral exceptions” in England are seldom remarked upon.
		Hutchison told the delegates who met May 13 and 14 that what does distinguish the diocese is that the blessing “has been put formally on the agenda of the church” by the synod’s action.
		No further parishes in the diocese will be allowed to bless gay and lesbian couples, at least until 2007 when the Anglican Church of Canada’s national General Synod takes up the matter.
	www.albanyviamedia.org /News/Primate_saya_diocese_is_open.htm (378 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: Anglican Leaders Ask U.S., Canada to Leave Council over Homosexuality Issue -- February 25, 2005
		Furthermore, the diocese of New Westminster in Vancouver, Canada, became the first in the communion to adopt a motion allowing its churches to bless same-sex unions in 2002.
		The request was in a six-page communique issued late Thursday at the end of a week-long annual meeting in Newry, North Ireland attended by 35 of the 38 primates of national and regional churches that comprise the 77-million member Anglican communion.
		The communique largely reaffirmed a resolution adopted by all Anglican bishops in 1998 declaring that gay sex was "incompatible with Scripture" and opposed gay ordinations and same-sex blessings, the AP reported.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/anglican_02-25-05.html (685 words)

	Archibishop Refuses Meeting To Discuss Same Sex Unions \| Headlines \| News \| Gay.com UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The diocese, which covers Vancouver and most of the lower mainland, voted in June to allow its churches to perform commitment ceremonies.
		A group of conservative bishops had condemned the blessings and called for the meeting, but Archbishop Peers said he wanted to give the issue time for bishops across the country to "listen in their own dioceses," reports the church's website.
		Last week, the new Archibishop of Canterbury and leader of the Anglican movement worldwide, Dr Rowan Williams, wrote to bishops around the world to reassure conservatives in the church that he would not embark on a liberalisation programme.
	uk.gay.com /headlines/544 (444 words)

	Anglican Archives in BC Display
		The Woman's Auxiliary of the Diocese of New Westminster was organized in 1904 as the New Westminster Branch of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada.
		Following proposed amendments to the Constitution (June 1963), the society changed its name to "Woman's Auxiliary of the Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of New Westminster" (1966).
		Within the administrative structure of the Diocese of New Westminster, the Woman's Auxiliary has its own board, and functions with a certain degree of independence.
	aabc.bc.ca /WWW.angbc.archbc/display.ANGNW-364 (536 words)

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		The Diocese of New Westminster’s Process Following the Diocese of New Westminster’s 1998 Synod, which narrowly passed a motion requesting that the Bishop authorize clergy in the diocese to bless covenanted same-sex unions, Bishop Michael Ingham withheld his consent and began a process of intentional focus on the issues in that diocese.
		I call on our diocesan family to engage in continued prayer for the Bishop and people of the Diocese of New Westminster, and for all who comprise the Anglican community as we deal with these questions and issues respectfully and with compassion.
		In an open letter to the Rev. Trevor Walters (of the Diocese of New Westminster), The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, has appealed to Anglicans in the Diocese of New Westminster to continue to work together.
	www.calgary.anglican.ca /News/pastoral-letter/2002-06-19.doc (957 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / N.H. / Nigerian Anglican leader blasts 'patronizing' Anglican report on gay split (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It also called for Episcopal congregations and churches in the New Westminster diocese of Canada to stop sanctioning blessings of gay partnerships.
		However, it sharply criticized the Episcopal Church and the Canadian dioceses for going moving ahead on the issue without full consultations among the 38 national churches which constitute the global communion.
		According to the report, "neither the diocese of New Westminster nor the Episcopal Church has made a serious attempt to offer an explanation to, or consult meaningfully with, the communion as a whole about the significant development of theology which alone could justify the recent moves"
	www.boston.com /news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2004/10/19/nigerian_anglican_leader_blasts_patronizing_anglican_report_on_gay_split (646 words)

	Task force will examine alternate episcopal oversight -- 2003-11-26
		Eight parishes (out of 80) walked out of New Westminster's diocesan synod in 2002, when the governing convention voted to allow the blessing of gay relationships in the diocese; the group formed a coalition called the Anglican Communion in New Westminster (ACiNW).
		One of the original ACiNW parishes was also reclaimed by the diocese when the bishop appointed an interim rector and governing committee and wardens.
		At its regular fall meeting, the Canadian house of bishops voted to form a task force to investigate the question of alternate episcopal oversight and Bishop Buckle agreed to withdraw from New Westminster.
	www.anglicanjournal.com /extra/news.html?newsItem=2003-11-26_sds.news (427 words)

	Church of Nigeria cuts ties with the Diocese of New Westminster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Church of Nigeria has issued a statement expressing deep sadness with the recent decision taken by the Diocese of New Westminster, Canada, to officially sanction same-sex union.
		In light of the news that the diocese conducted the first same-sex blessing using an authorised public rite on Wednesday 28 May, the Primate of Nigeria, the Most Revd Peter Akinola, said, "Regrettably, the much desired reflection that will ease the strain on our Communion has been jettisoned.
		It is significant that those dioceses most tempted to indulge themselves with unilateral actions, taken without consulting the wider Communion, seem so often to be among those materially most advantaged and to be in the global north.
	www.districtnet.org.uk /orbital/news/acns/2003/june2003/3455.htm (366 words)

	THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA AND HOMOSEXUALITY
		The General Synod meets every three years and is made up of lay persons, priests and bishops from each diocese.
		Historically, major ethical conflicts like the abolition of slavery, decriminalization of contraceptives, ordination of women, permitting inter-racial marriage, etc. have been settled first by liberal faith groups, and last by conservative groups.
		New Westminster diocese controversy : Bishop permits blessing of same-sex unions
	www.religioustolerance.org /hom_ang.htm (332 words)

	Why I Walked - Christianity Today Magazine
		In June 2002, the synod of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster authorized its bishop to produce a service for blessing same-sex unions, to be used in any parish of the diocese that requests it.
		In the New Westminster debate, subjectivists say that what is at issue is not the authority of Scripture, but its interpretation.
		The New Westminster Diocese has written a series of questions and answers on the current debate.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2003/001/6.46.html (2775 words)

	New Vision, North Vancouver, BC, Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		New Vision — An Alternative Voice for those of “Traditionalist Conscience” from the Diocese of New Westminster
		Occasional news updates on the situation in New Westminster and elsewhere.
		Insight, encouragement and food for thought from beyond New Westminster.
	www.churchinfoweb.com /newvision (74 words)

	The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego Search for a New Bishop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The nominees are guests in our Diocese who have been through a lengthy process and need to be treated with respect.
		We want the selection of our new bishop to be done in prayer and guided by the Holy Spirit.
		Opinions and statements are that of the candidates and are not necessarily those of the Diocese of San Diego.
	www.edsd-bishopsearch.org /nominees.htm (871 words)

	Anglican Diocese of New Westminster Archives - Listing of Holdings
		Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster fonds
		Anglican Church Foundation of the Diocese of New Westminster fonds
		Mary the Virgin Parish (Sapperton, New Westminster, B.C.) fonds
	aabc.bc.ca /aabc/angdnw.html (319 words)

	Information on SameSex Blessings in the Diocese of New Westminster > Recent Events > St Martin's ( DNN 3.1.0 ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A lawsuit by two former trustees of the parish of St. Martin in North Vancouver against their bishop and their former parish has been dismissed in BC Supreme Court by consent of all parties.
		Christopher Vondette and James Burns, the former trustees, initiated the process which resulted in the dismissal of the lawsuit.
		The former trustees also agreed to pay a portion of the legal costs incurred by the Diocese of New Westminster.
	www.samesexblessing.info /Default.aspx?tabid=133 (308 words)

	Information on SameSex Blessings in the Diocese of New Westminster > Home ( DNN 3.1.0 )
		Our decision-making assembly, the Diocesan Synod, provided that another bishop be invited into the diocese to offer a level of safety and comfort to clergy and parishioners opposed.
		Including situations at various parishes and within the national and international church if there is a connection to the Diocese of New Westminster read more...
		This section of our website is designed to bring together information about our collective decision to allow the blessing of the covented unions of gay and lesbian Anglicans in the Greater Vancouver area (the Diocese of New Westminster).
	www.samesexblessing.info (324 words)

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