English Priest to Become Missionary Ugandan Bishop in UK

The Times of London (paid subscription required) reports that the Archbishop of Canterbury has approved a plan under which a well-known CofE priest will be consecrated a bishop for the Anglican church of Uganda, to work as a missionary bishop in the UK. The English priest, the Rev. Sandy Millar, is a former rector of Holy Trinity Brompton who helped pioneer the popular, evangelically-focused Alpha course. (The full text of the Times article is posted at the Virtuosity Web site, apparently in violation of The Times' copyright.)

This could have interesting implications for the structure of the Anglican Communion, as speculated in a comment by Dale Rye at the TitusOneNine blog (his is comment # 1):

... I would guess that this is a none-too-subtle message to America: ?Since I am willing to allow African missionary bishops and priests to operate in the Church of England, so should you.?

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If everyone agrees (a big ?if"), it may be a way out of the current impasse. The Communion gets transformed into a federation of non-geographic provinces with non-geographic dioceses, so that every congregation can find an affinity group that meets its taste in attitudes towards homosexuality, women priests, lay celebration, social activism, catholic/protestant, charismatic/traditional, 1662/1979, etc. Some of these groups will be in a state of impaired or even broken communion with some of the others, but everyone could be encouraged to maintain as many contacts as they can conscientiously maintain. ...