Anglican Church calls for unity follow homosexuality row
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The leader of the world's Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has called for understanding and unity at the end of the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference in a bid to soothe a row over homosexuality in the church.
The conference held in Canterbury, in south-eastern England, is a key event for the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Our correspondent in London, Stephanie Kennedy, reports for nearly three weeks, the leaders of the Anglican Church have been meeting in the city of Canterbury.
Around 250 bishops, boycotted the meeting because of their opposition to the consecration of gay Bishops and the blessing of same sex unions.
There are also moves by these bishops to create a breakaway grouping.
As the conference draws to a close, the leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams announced an extended ban on consecrating gay bishops until the crisis over homosexuality is resolved.
He says there'll be further discussions with those who were absent from the once a decade meeting to avert a split in the Church.
