Ecumenism

===Anglicans/Episcopalians===
[[William David Walker]], who was the first bishop of [[Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota|North Dakota]] (1883–1896), and [[Episcopal Diocese of Western New York|Western New York]] (1897–1917), was strongly opposed to dialogue with other denominations.<ref>Review of G. Sherman Burrows ''The Diocese of Western New York, 1897–1931'' by E. Clowes Chorley in the ''Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church'' Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 1936), 71.</ref> In his address to the 1914 Convention of the Diocese of Western New York, Walker said that "in my opinion while divided Christendom remains, separated sects are better apart—each peaceably working out its own salvation."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NxkRAAAAIAAJ&dq=The+Diocese+of+Western+New+York&pg=PA54 ''Journal of the Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Western New York, Volumes 77–79 '' (The Diocese, 1914), 63.]</ref>