The Anglican Communion’s divided views upon female bishops and homosexuality have launched a serious crisis that could probably lead to the point where the idea of an irrevocable schism is taken into consideration.

The Times communicated Tuesday in a first-page article upon the quit threat the 1,300 Anglican clergy made over women bishops that “the crisis is unprecedented since the Reformation devastated the Roman Catholic Church in England in the 16th century.”

The conservative bishops disapprove of what they consider to be a religious decline, and reject liberal attitudes towards homosexuality and the approval of female bishops.

This is the reason why on Sunday 300 conservative bishops and archbishops made public the foundation of a new grouping that does not acknowledge the authority of the Anglican leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury. They also proposed an assembly of primates, consisting of five African and one South American clergy to be converted into its utmost authority.

Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church of England's highest-ranking cleric encouraged the dissidents to join the Lambeth Conference of Bishops, Anglicanism's meeting held once in every ten years, in order to discuss the two positions and take measures.

The convention is to take place in Canterbury, southeast England, from July 16 to August 4. However, the majority of the conservatives who were present at the Global Anglican Future Conference have announced that they will not attend the conference.