Handover: on Tuesday, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the US, Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori (right), persuaded the leadership of the Central Ecuador diocese, including its Bishop, the Rt Revd Luis Fernando Ruiz (left), and the diocesan standing committee, with whom he has been in dispute, to resign and yield their authority to her. The interim bishop is to be the Rt Revd Victor Scantlebury

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