“The old order in the Episcopal Church is falling apart,” said CANA Bishop Martyn Minns, the former rector of Truro Church in Fairfax. “We’re all finding a new way to live into our Anglican heritage.”
Churches belonging to CANA are under the umbrella of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, and Bishop Minns was made a member of the Nigerian House of Bishops in August 2006. He was snubbed last spring by being one of a handful of prelates not invited by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to the decennial Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops.
Archbishop Akinola has since said that none of his bishops will attend Lambeth in July if the CANA bishops are not invited. He objected to the presence of several dozen American bishops who helped consecrate openly homosexual New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson in 2003.
“It’s not so much about me and my invitation,” Bishop Minns told reporters Thursday, “it’s about how the Anglican Communion functions together.”
Read it all and there is much more information on the CANA website.
“We’re all finding a new way to live into our Anglican heritage” —Bp. Minns
It will take a lot of living to launder reappraisers much-loved “living into.” But there’s lots of living left to do.
Any truth to the oft-repeated claim that the writer of this article (Julie Duin) is a worshipper at Truro? BabyBlue said she was, but then was forced to retract.
I assume that if the writer was a member of Truro, they would have reported the number of attendees correctly. The CANA Council had approximately 300 delegates. The consecrations on Sunday had about 750 in attendance (and it was a wonderful celebration).
It has always been “understood” by many of us in VA that the Religion Editor/Reporters at the times are affiliated with Truro. I don’t know if there is “evidence” but “everybody knows it.” (If it is not true, nobody has ever denied it.)
Julia Duin was in the relatively recent past a parishioner of Church of the Apostles but has not been worshipping there for some years.