This is a dramatic announcement.
Since 2008, there have been those who have warmed to the orthodox position Gafcon has taken but struggled with what paragraph 13 of the Jerusalem Declaration meant in practice:
“13. We reject the authority of those churches and leaders who have denied the orthodox faith in word or deed. We pray for them and call on them to repent and return to the Lord.”
Today the Gafcon Primates appear to have set out the cost of rejecting that authority. How other provinces respond and what the implications are for those who themselves are part of the Church of England will remain to be seen.
A significant development for global Anglicanism. https://t.co/oRVFOVjQtO
— Gafcon (@GafconGBE) October 16, 2025