THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT by the Church of Ireland was issued to the Gazette following our enquiry as to whether or not the Church of Ireland is in communion with ACNA:
“As a Province of the Anglican Communion, the Church of Ireland is in communion with the other Churches or Provinces in the Communion. There has not been a definitive position taken by the Church of Ireland in respect of any Church that has emerged from structural changes or divisions in another Church or Province in the Communion ”“ as in the case of the Anglican Church in north America and The Episcopal Church.
“Following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s call for a gathering of Primates in January 2016, it seems likely that a period of discernment will ensue to determine the ways in which Churches within the Anglican Communion and other Churches in an Anglican tradition relate to one another and that this is likely to take considerable time.”
“any Church that has emerged from structural changes or divisions in another Church of Province” – Very well put.
Whatever view one takes of the liberal/orthodox divide, there is no simple way to analyse the changes that have taken place within the Communion over the past 10 years.
That is highlighted by the letter to the CofI Gazette from the Revd Rupert Moreton, which began this exchange – Revd Moreton apparently had no idea that Dio SC is not part of ACNA.