(ACNS) Responses to the retirement of Rowan Williams from across the Anglican Communion

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2 comments on “(ACNS) Responses to the retirement of Rowan Williams from across the Anglican Communion

  1. Sarah says:

    The thing I find most interesting in this group is in who is not represented as giving praise to Rowan Williams upon his retirement. Honestly, some of these look like they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.

  2. Sarah says:

    [b]Primates [or representatives] [/b]
    — Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Burundi
    — The Most Revd Paul Keun-Sang Kim, Bishop of Seoul and Primate of Korea
    — the Archbishops of The Anglican Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia
    — Archdeacon Paul Feheley, principal secretary to Archbishop Hiltz the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
    — The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
    — The Most Revd Dr Thabo C Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town,
    — Archbishop of Wales
    — The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church
    — The Most Revd Alan Harper, OBE, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland

    [b]TEC Bishops[/b]
    — The Rt Rev C Andrew Doyle, Episcopal Diocese of Texas
    — The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas, Ph.D. [love those little letters after his name — so cute that he offers that up]

    [b]Other Anglican Communion Bishops[/b]
    The Rt Revd Matthias Mededues-Badohu, Bishop of Ho Diocese, Ghana
    The Rt Revd Miguel Tamayo, Bishop of the Diocese of Uruguay

    [b]COE Bishops[/b]
    — the Bishop of Durham, the Rt Revd Justin Welby
    — the Right Reverend Dr Gregory K Cameron, Bishop of St Asaph Formerly Chaplain to Archbishop Rowan Williams

    [b]Other[/b]
    — Daniel Solomon Raja, Department of Communications, Church of South India Synod
    — Church Army’s Chief Executive, Mark Russell
    — National Cathedral

    I’m confident that’s not “the best they can do” — there will be many more — and certainly one wouldn’t have wanted to put in the Sydney Archbishop’s comments, or those of the Primate of Nigeria.

    But it’s just telling that [i]this[/i] is the “haul” from the past four days.