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Anti-gay Anglicans ease off their challenge to female archbishop

March 6, 2026 0

Archbishop Laurent Mbanda of Rwanda now leads the anti-gay church coalition Gafcon, the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. (Photo courtesy of AFP/Getty/BBC)

Gafcon chooses leadership council instead of a male rival to female Archbishop of Canterbury The homophobic faction of the 95-million-member Anglican Communion that broke away in 2008 over acceptance of same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy has dropped a plan to elect a male alternative in opposition to Sarah Mullally, whose installation as the first female  Archbishop of Canterbury is scheduled for …

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