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| has gloss | eng: The term Anglican realignment refers to a movements among some Anglicans to align themselves under new or alternative oversight within or outside the Anglican Communion. This movement is primarily active in parts of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada. Two major events which contributed to the movement were the 2002 decision of the Diocese of New Westminster in Canada to authorise a rite of blessing for same-sex unions and the ratification by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church of the election of Gene Robinson, an openly gay non-celibate man, as Bishop of New Hampshire the following year. |
| lexicalization | eng: Anglican realignment |
| instance of | (noun) the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head Anglican Church, Anglican Communion, Church of England |
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| has gloss | fra: Le terme réalignement désigne un ensemble de changements dobédiences au sein de la communion anglicane qui ont affecté des paroisses ou des diocèses de léglise épiscopale des États-Unis dAmérique et de léglise anglicane du Canada à la suite de l'évolution docrinale de ces deux églises depuis le début des années 2000. |
| lexicalization | fra: Réalignement anglican |
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