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<TD class=update width="81%">Thursday, 18th June 2009</TD>
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<TD class=lead_title colSpan=2>Three Bishops consecrated for American dioceses</TD></TR>
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<TD class=lead_title colSpan=2>BY GRACE MUGABE</TD></TR>
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<P>The Episcopal Church of Rwanda has elected three new Bishops to serve in one of the provinces of the Anglican Church in North America. </P>
<P>The election took place on Saturday 13 at the Anglican Diocese of Kigali.</P>
<P>The Bishops who were elected are: The Rev. DR. Todd Hunter, The Rev. Canon Doc Loomis and Rev. Silas TAK Yin Ng. </P>
<P>According to the communiqué the first two bishops will serve in US while one Silas TAK Yin Ng will serve in Canada.</P>
<P>The province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda has increased the number of bishops in the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMIA) from seven to ten. </P>
<P>The Anglican Mission in the Americas was formed on July, 28, 2000 after this segment broke away from the Episcopal Church of America (ECUSA).</P>
<P>The world fellowship has been in an uproar since the liberal-leaning U.S. Episcopal Church, which is the Anglican body in the U.S.A, consecrated its first openly gay bishop, V. Gene.Robinson of New Hampshire.</P>
<P>As a result, Rwandan bishops oversee some Anglican dioceses in North America. </P>
<P>On his part, the Primate of the Church of Rwanda, Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini vowed that Rwanda will continue spreading a message of hope in an attempt to save mankind from falling into satanic pit. </P>
<P>In his message to the Press, Bishop Charles Murphy, the Chairman of AMIA and the Primatial Vicar from America lauded Rwanda for what it has done for his province. </P>
<P>“Rwanda is a beacon of hope. It has saved Americans from a state of quagmire,” said, Murphy, and added: “Our churches in America are canonically based in Rwanda; shall therefore remain a missionary out reach of Rwanda in America.”</P>
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