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Anglican leaders including Archbishop Williams, who is the spiritual leader of the global communion, met with the American bishops on Thursday and Friday.
The 57-year-old was formally sworn in as head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the 85 million-strong Anglican global communion.
That could widen rifts, as several dioceses have said they would break away from the Episcopal Church and primates of several provinces, or regions, have spoken of leaving the global communion.
At the end of a three-day meeting in Pittsburgh, the College of Bishops of the Common Cause Partnership announced a timeline for organization and a plan to appeal to individual archbishops in the global Communion for recognition as the true representative of Anglicanism in North America.
But experts said the church and dissident dioceses were treading new ground as those dioceses weigh leaving the church for another part of the 77-million-member global Communion.
But in what must be a bitter pill for Archbishop Williams, most dioceses of the Church of England are turning down the covenant; in other words, they are signalling they do not think it worth giving up their liberal ideas for the sake of keeping the global Communion together.
The global Anglican communion has threatened to split over the issue.
On the issue of sexuality, which has divided the Church of England and the global Anglican communion for two decades, Dorgu said he stood firmly behind the church's official position.
Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya said the "truth [of the Gospel] continues to be called into question in the Anglican communion" and warned against "the global ambitions of a secular culture".
The church's official position was explicitly restated earlier this month at a meeting of the Anglican communion in Canterbury that exposed deep divisions within the global and national church on the issue.
Little wonder successive archbishops have loved the Anglican communion.
