The archbishop attended the convention for two days and specifically asked delegates not to approve either of the two measures.

Now he is suggesting in "Communion, Covenant and Our Anglican Future," that the Anglican Communion might move to a two-tiered structure under which certain of its members, including the Episcopal Church, could not participate in certain ecumenical meetings or official gatherings.

And in a nod to breakaway groups such as the roughly 100,000 former Episcopalians who have joined the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), he wrote that if a province -- such as the Episcopal Church, though he did not specify in that paragraph -- decides not to adhere to Anglican mores, "any elements within it" can sign on instead, he wrote.

He also criticized the Episcopal Church's decision to nullify the Anglican Communion's ban on gay bishops.

"Their chosen lifestyle is not one that the Church's teaching sanctions," he wrote, "and thus it is hard to see how they can act in the necessarily representative role that the ordained ministry, especially the episcopate, requires."

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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams • Episcopal Church (TEC) • General Convention • TEC Conflicts

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