After decades of fierce controversies over sexuality and theology in the Anglican Communion, some leaders of a conservative coalition say it's time to make a final break from what has long been one of ...

Anglican leaders rejected the leadership of the archbishop of Canterbury in a scathing letter after the Church of England voted earlier this month to offer blessings for same-sex couples. The ...

Anthony Poggo, a South Sudanese bishop who was forced with his family into exile before he was a year old, has been named as the next secretary general of the Anglican Communion. Poggo, the former ...

Friction has long-simmered within the global Anglican Communion over its 42 provinces' sharp differences on whether to recognize same-sex marriage and ordain LGBTQ clergy. The divisions widened this ...

About 50 Anglican clergymen, who are not in communion with the Catholic Church, took part in religious services at the highest-ranking papal basilica in Rome on Tuesday, April 18. The Vatican later ...

VATICAN CITY — As the Anglican Communion threatens to break up, one large group of Anglicans is blazing a trail to Rome, and another could follow suit. The Traditional Anglican Communion, an ...

On the one hand, you have The Episcopal Church (Americans), the Scottish Episcopal Church, and the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil saying that gay marriage is okay. On the other hand, you have ...

* Membership: 2.3 million. * Churches: 7,305 parishes. * Structure: 112 dioceses headed by bishops, grouped regionally into nine provinces. * Hierarchy: The top elected figure is Presiding Bishop ...

In his latest speech, Archbishop Welby acknowledged for the first time that the Lambeth conference—a once-in-a-decade gathering of Anglican bishops—might never happen again. Nor, he made clear, was it ...

The Most Rev. Justin Welby, the leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, announced his resignation days after a report found he had taken insufficient action over claims of abuse. By Stephen Castle ...