More than a third of the worldwide leaders of the Anglican Church failed to attend last week’s primates’ meeting in Dublin.
The senior bishops or archbishops of all 38 provinces were invited to the six-day meeting at the Emmaus Retreat Centre in Swords, but only 24 turned up.
Correction: It was 42% closer to half of the primates who were absent from the Dublin meeting.
The absent dissenting/conscientious objector primates accounted for most of the world’s Anglican population and nearly all of the provinces that are growing despite persecution.