Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, will visit Jamaica next month to attend a meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).
The archbishop is the president of the ACC, one of the three instruments of communion which serves the worldwide family of Anglican/Episcopal Churches.
Anglicans are said to be looking forward to the May 2 to 14 Kingston meeting, which will see some 150 delegates representing 164 nations in attendance.
The Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands said plans for the meeting are well advanced.
The ACC meets every three years, and its present policy is to meet in different parts of the world. This is the Council’s second meeting in the Caribbean since delegates gathered for the third ACC meeting in Trinidad in 1976. Other meetings have been held in Kenya, the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, Nigeria, Singapore, Wales, South Africa, Panama, Scotland, Hong Kong, and Nottingham, England.
A confession for Lent: if I was the Archbishop of Canterbury, I would be hosting a meeting in Jamaica every month or so.
Of course, this is why God has called me to be a layperson and not a Bishop (among other reasons). Continue with serious discussion on Anglican matters…
DoW (in cold and dreary Chicago)
Blah, blah, blah.
Much ado about little doings.
May not March.
I’d be willing to bet that he will call for a “let’s pretend all is well” approach to any conclusions that might be reached. In short, more avoidance of the elephant in the living room.
“one of the [b]three[/b] instruments of communion which serves the worldwide family of Anglican/Episcopal Churches.” Have the Primates been dumped then? Or? Bill
The ACC is a perfect example of an admiral’s administrative staff giving orders to the ship captains of a fleet. But in this case, who is the admiral in-charge?
The ACC should be disestablished. It has become a tool of the national churches with the most money and the lowest ASA.
The ABC should act as the “equal among equals” that he is and stop doing and saying things that are too easily misconstrued as passive-aggressive support of the revisionists that are tearing the Anglican Communion apart.
The every-ten-years Lambeth meeting of the bishops of the Communion should be run as an assembly that discusses and debates major matters of concern. It should not be a policy making event unless it is a bi-cameral meeting with the Primates voting in one house where only the votes of primates are counted and all other bishops voting in general assembly. A three-quarter or two-thirds vote of the Primates should be required to give approval to any major change.
The Primates should meet in synod between Lambeth meetings. Again a 3/4 or 2/3 vote of the Primates should be required. A person other than a Primate should be able to address a synod but that person should not participate in deliberations.
All clergy and laity within the Anglican Communion should accept the fact that they are members of an epicopally run Communion and not a populist free-for-all melange of people believe in ‘what-ever.’
I hope the global south bishops are prepared for this. I would not be surprised to see TEC, with their greater influence in the ACC, try to do what they could not at Alexandria, and have the ACNA disavowed and the global south primates who have crossed borders disciplined.
If I am correct, I don’t think that the global south cares. I think that they are walking apart. The communion has split. It will take awhile for this to become realized, but that’s where I think we are. That’s also why I think that the covenant is irrelavent.
“Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, will visit Jamaica next month to attend a meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).” Wouldn’t it make sense that he would be visiting Jamaica next month and attending a meeting of the ACC since the archbishop is the president of the ACC?
Yes, it was sad when TEC decided to go its own way regardless of what the AC said. And it was sad when the AC decided to do nothing about it.
#10 Hopper,
“It’s sad when one side determines that all must tow their particular party line … or walk apart.” This is an easily predictable statement from you. There have been plenty of statements from the liberals to the effect, “Don’t let the door hit you in the behind on the way out”. There’s lots of bridge burning on both sides.