Retired Bishop Gene Robinson announced that he is divorcing partner Mark Andrew in an email to the Diocese of New Hampshire Saturday and an article for The Daily Beast.
The two men entered into a civil union in 2008 that converted to a marriage when New Hampshire legalized homosexual marriage in 2010.
His election in 2003 as the first openly homosexual bishop in the Anglican church created an international uproar and led conservative bible-believing Episcopalians to break away from the main church in the United States.
SOURCE: The Associated Press
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