This claim comes from one who left the Roman Catholic Church for the Anglican Communion whose very identity is based on the doctrinal issue of biblical faith that resulted in separation from Roman Catholicism at the Reformation. Obviously Mark has left Rome for no reasons of faith and doctrine. It is something of a puzzle as to his reason when he claims that issues of doctrine can never justify separation. It is an impossible position for authentic Anglicans to take.

"I will be faithful to that process, and have called upon the diocese to be faithful to this process, but if ECUSA as we know it rejects the Anglican Communion's demands for change and starts down a separate path from that of the majority of the Communion, I will seek alignment with an alternative structure as would be provided through the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council." Ultimately that is a decision the diocese would have to make at a special convention, he

VirtueOnline broke the story of these two priests practicing after a report in the independent Christian magazine Christianity Today saying the Episcopal Church had officially accepted Wiccan worshipping practices. The story made the front page in the Philadelphia INQUIRER on Friday Nov. 5. VirtueOnline got an honorable mention.

I have today sent this letter to my Bishop. My wife [The Rev. Glyn Lorraine Ruppe-Melnyk] has sent a similar letter:

Dear Bishop,

The Anglican Church of Nigeria is the largest Province in the Anglican Communion.

Riches said continuing ferment throughout the Anglican Communion was resulting in a renewed need for Anglican convergence and realignment, "occasioned by a radical departure from historic faith and order by many in some of her jurisdictions."