GAFCON Pilgrims Work to Finalize Communiqué

Reporting on the preliminary draft and comments from GAFCON leaders, the Church of England Newspaper reports that the final communiqué will likely call for formation of a “church within a church,” in which formal ties with the Archbishop of Canterbury would be maintained while ties with the progressive wings of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada would be severed. The final communiqué may also introduce new instruments of unity unrelated to four existing ones: the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the primates’ meeting and the Anglican Consultative Council.

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