The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams will pay a pastoral visit to the Diocese of Ely as it launches its 900th anniversary celebrations this weekend, 23”“25 January.
During his visit, Dr Williams will meet with all the clergy of the Diocese, and visit communities reflecting its diversity, before taking part in the inaugural Eucharist of the 900th anniversary celebrations at Ely Cathedral on Saturday 24th January. The visit will end on Sunday at Great St Mary’s Church, Cambridge, where he will preach the Hulsean Sermon before the Vice-Chancellor and University.
His pastoral visit will begin on Friday 23rd January at 3 pm in Cambourne, a new town community near Cambridge. Dr Williams will dedicate the site for the construction of an eagerly awaited church building.
Apparently the Roman Catholic Church will have no role in the celebration, thus continuing the fiction that there has only been an “English Catholic” church in the British Isles.
Dan,
I agree that it would have been a nice ecumenical gesture to invite them, but might not the RCs have had reservations about participating in such an event?
That’s ok…in 650 or so years when Truro celebrates it’s 900 anniversary CANA or ACNA can not invite TEC. That’s assuming a lot though.