Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, will visit Jamaica next month to attend a meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).<\/p>\n
The archbishop is the president of the ACC, one of the three instruments of communion which serves the worldwide family of Anglican\/Episcopal Churches.<\/p>\n
Anglicans are said to be looking forward to the May 2 to 14 Kingston meeting, which will see some 150 delegates representing 164 nations in attendance.<\/p>\n
The Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands said plans for the meeting are well advanced.<\/p>\n
The ACC meets every three years, and its present policy is to meet in different parts of the world. This is the Council’s second meeting in the Caribbean since delegates gathered for the third ACC meeting in Trinidad in 1976. Other meetings have been held in Kenya, the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, Nigeria, Singapore, Wales, South Africa, Panama, Scotland, Hong Kong, and Nottingham, England.<\/p>\n