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Anglicans elect migrant, former-Buddhist, person of colour as Archbishop of Sydney By Michael Koziol   Source:-https://www.smh.com.au/ The Anglican diocese of Sydney has elected its first person of colour Archbishop, Kanishka Raffel, at a time of significant division in the broader church over the blessing of same-sex couples. The vote on Thursday night was an emphatic win for the 56-year-old, who was born in the United Kingdom to Sri Lankan parents and emigrated to Australia at age seven. Just six months later his father died from a heart attack. The young Kanishka was raised by “a single mother migrant lady in a place where we had no family”. Archbishop-elect Raffel is unusual in another way: he was raised Buddhist. It was only while at the University of Sydney studying arts and law that he engaged with Christian friends about their faith, read the Gospel of John and converted religion. “It was ...