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A month after the Church of England allowed its priests to preside over same-sex marriages, global south Anglican churches are plotting to break away from the leadership of their mother church.

Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit revealed on Sunday that Anglican churches in the global south are in the process of forming a new leadership, a move that will see England overthrown from being the overall Anglican church global head.

“Churches in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific are in the process of creating a new leadership for themselves to safeguard fundamental biblical doctrine about marriage. Come May we will have a meeting in Cairo for the Global South over the same discussion. We are already in agreement that England will no longer be the leader of the Anglican Communion,” Sapit said during a television interview.

The Archbishop said the new Anglican leadership, once installed, will be on a rotational basis among the Communion whose faith is based on Orthodox teaching of the bible.

Archbishop Sapit also accused foreign powers of perpetuating the homosexuality agenda through funding which is disguised as foreign aid.

“I can see the Western governments’ influence in it. Why is it that they want to push the democracy and development agenda into this debate if they are genuinely not behind it?” Ole Sapit posed.

At the same time, Evangelical churches clerics are initiating a referendum process to firmly deal with the same sex marriages and other laws in the Constitution.

The clergy under the banner of the Senior Spiritual Fathers of the church  said LGBTQ should not be condoned in any form.

The clerics led by Redeemed Gospel Church Archbishop Arthur Kitonga said the church will not sanction or bless same sex unions, adding that the Supreme Court ruling would open the door to presumed homosexual objectives and purposes that are outlawed by the penal code.

Kitonga recalled that in 2010, the church raised her concerns about liberalising the bill of rights and proponents argued that they should keep quiet or pass the Constitution and amend later.

“We have now given a door to liberal judges to make laws for the 50 million Kenyans through their rulings even when they are obviously subversive.

They now wish to normalize what is obviously abnormal, unnatural and indecent. This must be rejected,” said Kitonga.

Deliverance Church Overseer Bishop Mark Kariuki said the church intends to collect more than 10 million signatures to enable them change some clauses in the Constitution. According to Bishop Kariuki, their technical team is scanning through the Constitution with a view to compiling the clauses that need a referendum.

“Our technical team is scanning through the Constitution and we will be able to announce when to start collecting the signatures,” said Kariuki. Other clerics were bishops Gerishon Kibarabara (Gospel Assembly of Kenya), Stanley Michael Michuki (Hope Restoration International), Patrick Mungai (Gospel Evengelistic Church) and Stephen Gachengo (Harvesters Christian Church).

They called President William Ruto and Opposition leader Raila Odinga to give dialogue a chance.