What’s happening to the Anglican Communion?

The already complex reality of global Anglicanism is becoming even more intricate.

Earlier this month, a body known as GAFCON — the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans — declared it was “now the Global Anglican Communion.”

The towers of Canterbury Cathedral, seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is ‘a focus of unity’ of the Anglican Communion. Credit: © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

In the Oct. 16 declaration, entitled “The future has a…