In 2003, the Lambeth Commission on Communion was appointed by the Anglican Communion to study problems stemming from the consecration of Gene Robinson, the first noncelibate self-identifying gay priest to be ordained as an Anglican bishop, in the Episcopal Church, in which country?
Gene Robinson Vicky Gene Robinson (born May 29, 1947 in Fayette County, Kentucky) is a bishop emeritus of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as diocesan bishop in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary to the VIII Bishop of New Hampshire.
William H. Love William Howard Love (born August 14, 1957, in Dallas, Texas) is the 9th and current Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States. A theological conservative, he is a prominent leader of conservative Anglicans at a time of disunity and disagreement in the Episcopal Church over theological interpretations of issues surrounding human sexuality, especially the inclusion of non-celibate homosexual men and women in the ordained ministry and the blessing of same-sex unions, as well as the sanctity of human life, from conception to natural death.