(ENS) The Rt. Rev. Herbert A. Donovan, Jr., who currently serves as an assisting bishop in the Diocese of New York, has been named as deputy to the Presiding Bishop for Anglican Communion Relations.
In this newly developed position, Donovan will serve as the liaison for the Episcopal Church to the other 37 provinces in the Anglican Communion, as well as to international groups, organizations and partners, said an October 20 press release from the Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs.
“I am honored to be asked by our Presiding Bishop to assist in the work of the church within the Anglican Communion at this important time in our life together,” said Donovan, who serves as vice chair of the Association of Episcopal Colleges and Universities.
The ‘secretary of state’ for TEC’s alternate revisionist global communion?
yawn…that tells you all you need to know about how TEC feels about the rest of the communion, to assign communion relationships to a long retired and ineffective guy like Herb Donovan…
Zzzzzzzz!
Snide comments such as the above should be beneath the dignity of Christian persons. I have known Bishop Donovan for many years and he is a splendid person. Who, may I ask, do commentators like these expect to impress or convince? Such small-mindedness seems to be a growing characteristic of the would-be “orthodox.” You need to learn that such judgments and their juvenile expression just make any thoughtful person want to get as far away from you as they can get.
Phillip
Ouch!
[blockquote]he is a splendid person[/blockquote]No he isn’t. He’s a rank sinner just like you. And me.
So I’m trying to figure out where the fawning phrase “splendid person” comes from and it’s from a poem written by WH Auden [snicker].
O splendid person, you who stand
In spotless flannels or with hand
Expert on trigger;
Whose lovely hair and shapely limb
Year after year are kept in trim
Till buffers envy as you swim
Your Grecian figure:
You are not jealous yet, we know,
But we must warn you, even so
So pray be seated:
It isn’t cricket, but it’s true
The lady who admires us, you
Have thought you’re getting off with too,
For you’re conceited.
Falling revenues!
Failing Communion!
22/34 broken or impaired communion provinces!
Let’s hire a liason parson!
Yeah!