Church's ballot avoids widening gay clergy rift
THE Episcopal Diocese of California has avoided widening a rift over gays in the global Anglican Communion by electing a heterosexual man as its next bishop.
More than 1,000 clergy and lay people packed Grace Cathedral in San Francisco's tiny Nob Hill neighbourhood on Saturday to elect the Rt Rev Mark Andrus as successor to Bishop William Swing, who is retiring after 27 years.
Two openly gay men and one lesbian were among the seven candidates on the ballot.
No gay or lesbian cleric has been elected bishop since the consecration of Eugene Robinson in 2003 as bishop of New Hampshire threw the US Church and the worldwide family of 77 million Anglicans into turmoil.
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