Complex sentence: He was involved in controversy when he was one of the bishops to have consecrated a defected Bishop from the Syriac orthodox church in 2007, without the consent of the Episcopal Synod of the Church.
Split into simpler sentences: He was involved in controversy when he was one of the bishops to have consecrated a defected Bishop from the Syriac orthodox church in 2007. This was done without the consent of the Episcopal Synod of the Church.