London ? An Anglican church commission on Monday urged the U.S. Episcopal Church not to elect any more gay bishops and called on conservative African bishops to stop meddling in the affairs of other dioceses.

The commission, created last year after the consecration of V. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire, called for apologies from both sides, and for reconciliation among the world’s Anglican churches.

The immediate reaction, however, suggested no move toward reconciliation. The head of the Episcopal Church pointedly did not express regret for Robinson’s elevation, drawing fresh denunciations from conservative opponents who believe the U.S. church has strayed from biblical truth.

The report also urged the Canadian and American churches to refrain from blessing same-sex unions, arguing that North American liberals had breached “the proper restraints of the bonds of affection” among Anglicans.

“Should the call to halt and find ways of continuing in our present communion not be heeded, then we shall have to begin to learn to walk apart,” said the unanimous report of a 17-member commission headed by Irish Archbishop Robin Eames.

The report, which didn’t criticize Robinson personally, “represents the highest degree of consensus that was attainable,” said Drexel Gomez, archbishop of the West Indies, a commission member and a leading conservative critic of the U.S. church.

Eames rejected a reporter’s suggestion that the world Anglican church was “helter-skeltering toward meltdown.” “I like to think we are learning the realities of a pluralist, sad and divided world,” he said.

The Anglican church traces its roots to the Church of England, whose archbishop of Canterbury is the communion’s spiritual leader. But both the Church of England and the Episcopal Church are now among the smaller members of the communion.