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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola has rejected the U.S. Episcopal Church's latest efforts to calm tensions over the consecration of gay bishops — an issue threatening to split the global Anglican-Episcopalian family.
Akinola, a vocal and influential leader of the faction seeking an outright ban on gay bishops, said a resolution this week by the U.S. Episcopalians that failed to explicitly bar gay bishops from the pulpit meant his followers' "pleas have once again been ignored."
"Instead of the change of heart (repentance) that we sought what we have been offered is merely a temporary adjustment," Akinola said in a statement posted on his church's Web site late Wednesday.
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