The Ekklesia website reports today (March 19, 2010) that the Anglican Communion will for the first time have a lesbian bishop. The Episcopal Church -- which is the Anglican body in the United States -- has confirmed the appointment of Mary Glasspool as suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles.
She will be consecrated on May 15, 2010, along with another suffragan bishop, Diane Jardine Bruce.
Bishop Glasspool, 56, will be the second bishop in the Anglican Communion to be openly in a same-sex relationship, following the appointment of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003. She has been with her lesbian partner since 1988.
In recent years, thousands of Episcopalians -- opposed to the Episcopal Church's acceptance of gay priests and bishops, as well as other liberal policies -- have become disappointed with the Episcopal Church for making changes which contradict the teachings of Christ.
Realizing the occurrence of a significant schism within the Anglican Church, Pope Benedict XVI in October 2009 eased the process for Anglicans to convert to a more traditional Catholicism. Several thousand former Anglicans have already converted to Catholicism, while thousands of American Episcopalians have broken away from the Episcopal Church and have established more conservative Anglican churches.
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