More than 800 people –including 80 from Bakersfield and Kern County — celebrated the consecration of the Rev. Dr. Eric Menees recently at the Peoples Church in Fresno.
Bishop Menees formally will become the fifth bishop of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin when he will be enthroned as diocesan bishop next Saturday when the current bishop, John-David Schofield, retires. Bishop Schofield has led this diocese since Oct. 9, 1988.
This report states that the ACNA is a province in the Anglican Communion. Is that so? The HOB/D posters don’t seem to think so.
Some churches of the Anglican Communion are in communion with the ACNA and not with TEC; others including Canterbury are in communion with TEC and not ACNA.
I’m guessing the reporter just got it wrong. There are so many names and acronyms at this point that they can’t possibly keep up unless they become some sort of Anglican pedant-nerd.
Tom, #2 above, while we’re trying to be more accurate, instead of: ”
Some churches of the Anglican Communion are in communion with the ACNA and not with TEC;” how about 22 provinces of the Anglican Communion (out of 38), accounting for substantially more than half of the communicants of the Anglican Communion, are in communion with the ACNA and most of those have broken or impaired communion with the TEC. The exact relationship of the ABC to many bishops of ACNA is unclear to me, as is his relationship with the current TEC bishop of New Hampshire.
#3, Sarah, the author is a member of St. Paul’s Anglican in Bakersfield and is the chair of their communications committee. I don’t think he got it wrong, but chose to characterize ACNA as a province in the Anglican Communion.
It is not my intention to either debate or defend that characterization, but it does not appear to be due to lack of familiarity with the alphabet soup that North American Anglicanism seems to have become.
RE: “but chose to characterize ACNA as a province in the Anglican Communion. . . . ”
Well, certainly anybody may say anything they like about what organizations they belong to in what identity.
Signed,
The Blonde Buddhist