Charlie Masters, general secretary of Duncan’s new church and its spokesperson in Canada, says the intention of setting up the Anglican Church in North America was to offer an alternative entity operating parallel to the established churches of Canada and the United States.
Breaking away was the first step. Being recognized as a province in the communion is the next. “We have organized ourselves as an Anglican province and are operating as a province,” says the soft-spoken Masters, who is also executive archdeacon of the Anglican Network in Canada.
The primates attending this week’s five-day meeting will be told about the constitution and canons of the new church in hopes they will support it being made the communion’s 39th province, with Duncan as primate. (Duncan could not be reached for comment.)
Masters believes the new church can bring unity to the communion. By providing a theological alternative to the liberal Canadian and American churches, he says, conservative Anglicans will no longer feel the need to break away.
It is not ‘Duncan’s Church’!!!!
… And he led his diocese out of the Episcopal Church, not the Anglican Communion…
Sheesh, this misrepresentation gets me mad!
Bill,
But it’s not unexpected or surprising.