Priest resigns orders.Evangelist evangelist (ĭvăn`jəlĭst) [Gr.,=Gospel], title given to saints Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The four evangelists are often symbolized respectively by a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle, on the basis of Rev. 4.6–10. and author Marney Patterson said he resigned in March as a priest and member of the Anglican Church of Canada because he disagrees with a motion passed at General Synod The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations. Church of England In the Church of England, General Synod was instituted in 1970 and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had 2004 that affirmed "the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same-sex relationships." In an announcement, he said the synod was "offering two options to me and to many others. The first option was to stay in the church and support same-sex unions. The second one was to resign ... and in that there really wasn't any choice for me to make." He is now a member of the Anglican Church in the Southern Cone The term Southern Cone (Spanish: Cono Sur, Portuguese: Cone Sul) refers to a geographic region composed of the southernmost areas of South America, below the Tropic of Capricorn. (South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ). Mr. Patterson wrote the 1999 book Suicide: The Decline and Fall of the Anglican Church of Canada? |
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