Archbishop Williams, hoping to keep clashes and controversy to a minimum at the three-week Lambeth summit, decided not to invite Robinson, disappointing the U.S. bishop.
Robinson, who will still be coming to Canterbury to meet fellow clerics on the margins of the conference, believed clashes will be few and far between at Lambeth.
Forecasting it will end with a typically fudged Anglican consensus, he said “It will drive the press crazy. There will be no resolutions, no proclamations, no lines drawn in the sand.”
After congregating in Canterbury on Wednesday, the bishops y head into a four-day biblical retreat away from the eyes of the media. They launch into a full conference agenda next week.
This news service has been to the Dean PB Schori School of Statistics. One quarter of Anglican BISHOPS are absenting themselves from the Lambeth jamboree. These bishops represent 50% of the numbered anglicans in the world and probably 75% of actual practicing -as opposed to nominal- anglicans.