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• Episcopal Leader Faces Controversy

NEW YORK -- 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. Long-simmering differences over Scripture and the global Anglican fellowship erupted into a threat of full- blown schism.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• July 12, 2008

• Court: Parish has No Claim On Buildings, Land -- Episcopal Church

HARTFORD, Conn. - A 135-year-old parish that broke away from the Episcopal Church after it consecrated its first openly gay bishop cannot keep its building and land, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday. Justices rejected an appeal of a lower court ruling by the Bishop Seabury Church in Groton, which like dozens of parishes nationwide split from the national Episcopal Church after the 2003 appointment of Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Bishop Seabury Church's governing board voted in 2007 to join the more conservative Convocation of Anglicans in North America.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• October 03, 2011

• Church Nears Vote On Gay Bishops; U.S. Episcopalians Under Pressure From World Body

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Episcopal General Convention approached another defining vote Monday in the wake of electing its first female presiding bishop: whether the church should temporarily bar gays from becoming bishops to preserve Anglican fellowship. Delegates began considering a moratorium at the request of world Anglican leaders, who remain angry over the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop -- V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.

• The Columbian
• June 29, 2006

• Episcopalians Take Up Ban On Gay Bishops

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Episcopal General Convention approached another defining vote Monday in the wake of electing its first female presiding bishop: whether the church should temporarily bar gays from becoming bishops to preserve Anglican fellowship. Delegates began considering a moratorium at the request of world Anglican leaders, who remain angry over the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop - V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.

• Charleston Gazette
• June 20, 2006

• Witnessing Theology From Inside

Two years ago this week, nine Episcopal churches staged a dramatic walkout from the Diocese of Virginia, followed by two more the following month. On the afternoon of Dec. 17 at Truro Church, about two dozen clergy showed up to say they and their churches were parting ways with a diocese they saw as compromised on Scripture and the role of homosexuality in the church. Three years before, the entire Virginia delegation to the Episcopal General Convention in Minneapolis had approved the election of a gay Episcopal bishop: V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. All of the 11 departing churches had gone through a 40-day discernment process during the fall of 2006 on whether to leave the denomination and the diocese.

• The Washington Times
• December 18, 2008

• Robinson Redux: four years after his election as the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson talks about life now, for him and his church.

"I THOUGHT THREE MONTHS after my election and consecration I would be old news," says the Reverend V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's New Hampsh...

• The Advocate. The National Gay & Lesbian Newsmagazine
• Nbr. 2007, January 2007

• Minns, Robinson Left Off the List for Anglican Meeting ; Breakaway Leader, Gay Bishop Criticize Exclusion by Canterbury

A few notable names were missing in the 850 invitations issued yesterday by the archbishop of Canterbury to the once-every-decade Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops in England. Openly homosexual New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson was left out, as was Bishop Martyn Minns, installed recently as head of the Virginia-based Convocation of Anglicans in North America and as a missionary bishop for the Anglican Province of Nigeria.

• The Washington Times
• May 23, 2007

• Vote On Gay Ban Is Next Crisis ; Moratorium Sought by Foreign Leaders

COLUMBUS, Ohio The Episcopal General Convention approached another defining vote a day after electing its first female presiding bishop: whether the church should temporarily bar gays from becoming bishops to preserve Anglican fellowship. Delegates have been considering a moratorium at the request of world Anglican leaders, who remain angry over the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. The matter was headed to a scheduled floor debate and possible vote Monday afternoon.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• June 20, 2006

• Nh's Bishop Robinson Tells of Support, Resistance at Lambeth

[V Gene Robinson], the Episcopal church's first openly gay bishop, visited Trinity Episcopal Church on Tuesday, officiating a confirmation and reception service.

• Between the Lines; Livonia
• August 28, 2009

• Episcopal Bishop Back On Job After Alcohol Treatment

Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson is back on the job in Concord, N.H., after spending a month receiving treatment for an alcohol problem. He is going to kind of ease back in to things," Robinson spokesman Mike Barwell said Tuesday.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• March 08, 2006