Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson

More than 900 bishops from all around the world will be invited to a major Anglican conference in 2020 in what will be the biggest test of Justin Welby's ... other global south bishops in 2008 who objected to the US Episcopal Church's decision to consecrate Gene Robinson, who is openly gay, as a bishop.

In 2003 the Episcopal Church consecrated The Rev. V. Gene Robinson as ninth bishop of the New Hampshire Diocese. The move was controversial because Bishop Robinson was a practicing homosexual living openly with a male lover. In public statements, the bishop has called the Bible “an outdated ...

He told his audience that after the consecration of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop, tension in the Anglican Communion had reached “fever pitch”. Following the consecration, the US House of Bishops met in New Orleans with the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, members of the ...

While the Episcopal Church is no Westboro Baptist Church by any means — it ordained the first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, back in 2003 — one still has to assume that, when a legislative body is behaving conservatively enough to attract this sort of response from the highest ...

Rev. Gene Robinson gives a sermon at St. Thomas' Parish (1810 16th St., N.W.) on Sunday, Jan. 7 at 9:30 a.m.. Robinson was the first openly gay priest to be consecrated as bishop in a Christian denomination. He resigned as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire in 2013. After moving to ...

As retired Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson recently wrote, “The principle at stake is whether or not gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people are going to be accorded the same public dignity that is available to everyone else – whether or not such treatment is commensurate with the personal opinions ...

To the Editor: Re “How Not to Advance Gay Marriage” (column, Dec. 5):. For years I've looked to David Brooks for a reasoned, articulate conservative perspective on public matters. But this time he uncharacteristically gets it so wrong. A baker, in violation of Colorado's anti-discrimination law, refuses to ...

Despite the encroaching darkness in the body politic, retired Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, in a visit to the largely LGBTQ Episcopal Church of St. John ... bishops (mostly in Africa), exile from the Lambeth Conference (a once in a decade gathering of all Anglican Church bishops from around the world), ...

The dissatisfaction was exacerbated by the 2003 consecration of Gene Robinson in New Hampshire, the church's first openly gay bishop. The gap of disagreement became a chasm as Lawrence and other like-minded Anglicans within the church tussled with then-Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, ...

Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, says he still has plenty of minds and hearts to change. It is in that spirit that the ... The church established a rite for blessing same-sex couples, though the decision on whether to celebrate the rite was left to local bishops. Robinson, who ...

(RNS) Bishop Gene Robinson, whose 2003 election as the first openly gay Episcopal bishop rocked Anglican Communion, has announced his divorce from his longtime partner and husband. Robinson ... In 2012, the Episcopal Church voted to allow bishops to permit priests to bless same-sex marriages.

Bishop V. Gene Robinson, who made history as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, has announced that he and his husband are ... who last year retired as the head of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, disclosed the breakup of his marriage in a note to other Episcopal bishops and ...