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The Most Reverend Mark Haverland, Archbishop and Acting Primate of the Anglican Catholic Church, has released the following statement regarding the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), which was held in Jerusalem from June 22-29, 2008. A number of self-described traditional Anglicans from around the globe, including many bishops and archbishops from the "global South" bodies of the official Anglican Communion, recently met in Jerusalem at a meeting called GAFCON. This meeting was called largely in response to the refusal of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. and of the Anglican Church of Canada to heed earlier calls to rein in...

Bishop James Mote, 84, led split over Episcopal women's ordination http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1148200753107070.xml&coll=2 http://tinyurl.com/kdvv7 Sunday, May 21, 2006 From wire reports Indianapolis- Bishop James Mote, who made national headlines in 1977 when he led his Denver congregation out of the Episcopal Church after it began ordaining women, died April 29. He was 84 and had been in a nursing home in Indianapolis, his hometown. Mote's battle with his former bishop, William Frey, leader of the Colorado Episcopal diocese, went on for months because Frey didn't want the congregation to leave. When St. Mary's Church, which Mote headed, met to vote on secession...