As the worldwide Anglican Communion prepares to meet at Canterbury, England, July 16-Aug. 3, the church finds itself in a terrible crisis on many sides. The Lambeth Conference, a once-a-decade gathering of bishops from the 38 provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion, will meet behind closed doors this time to see if they can heal and mend the tattered fabric of their frayed unity. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, has drawn up the guest list and guided the design for the meeting. He intentionally left off the guest list two Episcopal bishops from the United States, the bishop of New Hampshire, V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay man, now formally married to his male partner. Also off the list is Bishop Martyn Minns, an American Episcopal priest who was consecrated a bishop in the Church of Nigeria. They ordained him bishop without the permission of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, to minister to conservative Episcopalians who are threatening to leave the national church.
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From the article:
[blockquote]A month before the Lambeth Conference, the leaders of the “conservative,†wing of the Anglican Church have declared that the worldwide Anglican Communion no longer exists.[/blockquote]
Um, they did? I must have missed that.
Yes, teatime. Like the famous case of Mark Twain, the rumors of the death of the AC are premature. This English Roman Catholic priest takes it for granted that an official schism is inevitable. Well, time will tell.
What we DO have is the clear beginning of some new wineskins for 21st century Anglicanism. And I’d say that they are overdue.
David Handy+
“Also off the list is Bishop Martyn Minns, an American Episcopal priest who was consecrated a bishop in the Church of Nigeria. They ordained him bishop without the permission of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, to minister to conservative Episcopalians who are threatening to leave the national church.”
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Excuse me.
Did Archbishop Akinola require Schori’s permission before consecrated Father Minns, a priest in the Nigerian Church, as a bishop in that church?