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Episcopal Church leaders plan to take legal action for the return of property held by 11 parishes that broke away because of the church's tolerance of gay clergy and relationships.

Due to rifts over homosexuality and the ordination of women between the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion, Nigerian archbishop Peter Akinola has come to the U.S. to install an ousted clergyman as bishop of Akinola's Convocation of Anglicans in North America.

Colorado's largest Episcopal congregation was left in turmoil after leaders voted to leave the denomination and the state's bishop responded by dismissing the parish's leadership.

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was installed as head of the U.S. church less than two years ago, inheriting a mess not of her own making. The global Anglican Communion was in an uproar over the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.

As Episcopal leaders consider barring more gays from becoming bishops to prevent an Anglican schism, the world Anglican family is already dying by a thousand cuts. Theological conflict over the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, is draining the Anglican Communion of its global influence. Episcopal and Anglican conservatives who have been trying to maneuver collectively have instead been scattering in different directions, adding to a sense of chaos.