Question: 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?

James Parker Dees was the founder and first bishop of the Anglican Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Anglican Communion.  Dees was born in Greenville, North Carolina on December 30, 1915, the son of James Earle Dees and Margaret Burgwin (Parker) Dees.  He graduated in 1938 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in political science and economics, then took a year of graduate study in international relations.  From 1939 until 1942, he worked for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in Greenville, North Carolina.  For two years after the Second World War, he was a baritone soloist with the New York Opera Company.  He then studied at the Protestant Episcopal Church’s Virginia Theological Seminary for his Bachelor of Divinity degree, graduating in 1949.  He was ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church on June 29, 1949; and as a priest by Thomas Henry Wright, Bishop of East Carolina, at the Church of the Holy Cross, in Aurora, North Carolina, on January 19, 1950.  As a member of the Diocese of North Carolina, he served in charges in Aurora, Beaufort, and Statesville.  His concerns about advancing liberalism caused him to withdraw from the denomination in 1963.  Dees was discouraged from joining the Reformed Episcopal Church by Carl McIntire because of their association with groups perceived as being neo-evangelical.  The decision to form a new jurisdiction was made.  Dees founded the Anglican Orthodox Church on November 17, 1963 - the first religious body to withdraw from the PECUSA in the modern era.  On Passion Sunday, March 15, 1964 Dees was consecrated a bishop by Wasyl Sawyna of the Holy Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church of North and South America, assisted by Orlando Jacques Woodward, a bishop of Old Catholic succession. <SEP> 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 the United States and the blessing of same-sex unions in the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster.  The report recommended a covenant for the Anglican Communion, an idea that did not come to fruition.  The Commission, chaired by Archbishop Robin Eames, published its findings as the Windsor Report on 18 October 2004. <SEP>  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. 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. <SEP> The term Anglican realignment refers to a movement among some Anglicans to align themselves under new or alternative oversight within or outside the Anglican Communion.  This movement is primarily active in parts of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada.  Two of the major events which contributed to the movement were the 2002 decision of the Diocese of New Westminster in Canada to authorise a rite of blessing for same-sex unions, and the nomination of two openly gay priests in 2003 to become bishops.  Jeffrey John, an openly gay priest with a long-time partner, was appointed to be the next Bishop of Reading in the Church of England and the General Convention of the Episcopal Church ratified the election of Gene Robinson, an openly gay non-celibate man, as Bishop of New Hampshire.  Jeffrey John ultimately declined the appointment due to pressure.