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DATE: SATURDAY, June 2, 1990                   TAG: 9006010228
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GROUP SEEKS OWN PROVINCE

For more than a year traditionalists in the Episcopal Church have been searching for a way to remain in the denomination while opposing many of its modern positions like ordination for women and equality for homosexuals.

Last month the traditionalist group, the Episcopal Synod of America, asked that it be incorporated into a 10th province that would operate along with the nine geographic provinces that now make up the church.

But last week Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning rejected the idea, saying he was "profoundly disappointed" in the suggestion. "I am grieved by what this resolution says about the willingness of those who relate to the Synod to live and work with those who do not hold their views," he said.

Bishop William C. Wantland, head of the diocese of Eau Claire, Wis., who is a leader of the traditionalists, said the group was not sure how it would proceed with its request for a new province. - The New York Times

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