ABUJA, March 5 (Reuters) - A group of conservative Anglicans said at a conference in Nigeria on Thursday that they wanted the global Anglican Communion to be led by a council, in a direct challenge to the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The council would include bishops, clergy and lay members, each with voting privileges, the group announced.
It unanimously elected Rwandan archbishop Laurent Mbanda as the chairman of the new council but said he would not be "primus inter pares" (first among equals) but rather share power.
(Reporting by Elisha Bala-Gbogbo;Additional reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe in Lagos;Editing by Alexander Winning)
