I see. There were already seeds in the church. At least it appears to me that he didn’t have authority over many churches, and he was refused employment as an army chaplain.
The current article indicates the church’s legislative body unanimously passed a motion encouraging ALL its parishes to draw up “race action plans.” That would be concerning, I think, to anyone who was a member of that denomination.
Hewitt Johnson was an extreme case, but that goes back decades.
The COE hierarchy has been leftist as long as I can remember.
One thing that has changed, with both the COE and Anglican Church of Canada is that there were huge differences between churches and parishes that persisted for many decades.
Starting about 20 years ago, they forced forced gay marriage / gay priests on everyone. And that was the trigger for many of the conservative churches to leave and align with the Anglican church of Canada / Anglican church of North America.
Or in the UK it is Anglican Convocation Europe.