Anglicans in gay row boycott

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The five leaders from Africa and South America said they could not share communion with Episcopal bishops who in 2003 consecrated Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire.

The Episcopal Church is the Anglican body in the US.

The announcement came from Archbishops Peter Akinola of Nigeria, Emmanuel Kolini of Rwanda, Benjamin Nzimbi of Kenya, Henry Orombi of Uganda and Gregory Venables of the Southern Cone, which is the southern tip of South America.

"There is no serious space for those of an orthodox persuasion ... to be themselves or to be taken seriously," the archbishops said in a statement.

The five clerics lead some of the largest or fastest-growing Anglican provinces in the world.

"The gathering will be diminished by their absence, and I imagine that they themselves will miss a gift they might have otherwise received," Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said.

The Lambeth Conference is set for July 16 to August 3 at the University of Kent.

Several Anglican conservatives, including the five archbishops who announced their boycott, are holding a separate meeting, seen as a rival to Lambeth, from June 15 to 22 in Israel.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams did not invite a small number of bishops, including Bishop Robinson, to participate at Lambeth. Earlier this month, bishops from the traditionalist Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Australia, said they would also boycott the event.