Talking on the BBC Radio 4's PM programmer, Katherine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, defended the consecration of the openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson in 2003, saying at least he was opened about it.
"He is certainly not alone in being a gay bishop, he's certainly not alone in being a gay partnered bishop," she said.
"He is alone in being the only gay partnered bishop who's open about that status."
She said that other Anglican churches which have gay bishops should be opened about it.
The consecration of a gay bishop in the U.S. caused a furore within the conservative bible-based Anglicans who described the act as flouting the authority of the Scripture.
"Five years later, however, actions were taken in Anglican churches both in Canada and the United States of America that officially transgressed these boundaries in defiance of the Bible's authority," the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Peter Jensen, wrote.
Dr. Jensen reiterated that in the 1998 Lambeth Conference, it made clear the Anglicans world-wide adhered to the biblical view of sexual ethics which stipulated that a sexual relationship is only reserved for marriage between a man and a woman.
A separate conference, known as the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFC), will be held in June, one month preceding the Lambeth Conference, to focus on the mission imperative of the orthodox Anglicans for the next 25 years.
Furthermore, the Primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Peter Akinola, in a letter, wrote the GAFC needed to go ahead because a number of primates could not receive the encouragement and strength they needed at the Lambeth.
"As we talked together at Nairobi, it became clear than a number of primates, leading a substantial number of bishops, feel they need to provide the spiritual care and encouragement which they would otherwise hope to receive at Lambeth, but which they cannot provide because of their principled objection to the current composition of the conference, which I believe you share. So our meeting is also necessary to provide that spiritual care," Archbishop Akinola wrote, reported the Virtue Online.