The statement from Abuja makes clear that the leaders gathered here believe the Anglican Communion has reached a point where reordering is necessary. For more than two decades, GAFCON leaders and other orthodox Anglicans called for repentance from provinces and leaders who departed from historic Anglican teaching, particularly on matters of biblical authority and human sexuality. The communiqu\u00e9 argues that those appeals did not result in meaningful discipline or correction within the Communion\u2019s historic structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the statement, the problem lies not only in the theological disagreements themselves but in the inability, or unwillingness, of the Canterbury-centered \u201cInstruments of Communion\u201d to maintain doctrinal accountability. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council, and the Primates\u2019 Meeting are described as having failed to guard the faith once delivered to the saints. Rather than confronting false teaching, the communiqu\u00e9 argues, these structures increasingly sought to preserve institutional unity through the language of \u201cwalking together\u201d despite deep theological disagreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In response to this perceived failure, the statement outlines what it calls a \u201creordering\u201d of the Anglican Communion around a confessional foundation. The key theological principle underlying this vision is that true communion among churches must be grounded in shared doctrine rather than merely shared institutional affiliation or historical connection. In this view, communion exists where churches confess the same faith, particularly as expressed in the Jerusalem Declaration and the historic formularies of Anglicanism, including the Thirty-Nine Articles and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From this perspective, the communiqu\u00e9 suggests that the current crisis within Anglicanism reflects not the existence of two separate communions but rather two competing definitions of communion. One definition is confessional, grounded in shared doctrine and submission to the authority of Scripture. The other is institutional, centered on historical structures that attempt to hold together provinces with fundamentally incompatible theological commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The leaders gathered in Abuja argue that a confessional understanding of communion is not an innovation but a recovery of the historic Anglican vision. The communiqu\u00e9 points to the first Lambeth Conference in 1867, when Archbishop Charles Longley described the Anglican Communion as a fellowship of churches bound together by shared faith and common formularies rather than by centralized authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Against this backdrop, the G26 statement formally affirms the emergence of what it calls the Global Anglican Communion. According to the communiqu\u00e9, this is not intended to be a breakaway body or a rival communion, but rather a reordering of Anglican life around the historic doctrinal commitments that originally defined Anglican fellowship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> A Commentary on the Abuja Statement from @gafconference<\/a> G26: https:\/\/t.co\/cL0Od8JdkQ<\/a><\/p>— American Anglican (@AnglicanCouncil) March 6, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>