sentences:  It is in contemporary Anglicanism that the issue of homosexuality and its relationship to people in the episcopate has been confronted openly.Indeed, the first large mainstream church to ever consecrate an openly gay bishop who was not celibate has been the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, a member of the Anglican Communion, who consecrated Gene Robinson diocesan bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in 2003.Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as diocesan bishop in March 2004.