The next Anglican Consultative Council will debate a recommendation to increase the number of primates on the standing committee to eight, to equal ACC representatives. Some ACC members are wary of increasing the role of the primates.<\/p>\n
Skirmishes over details are relatively minor compared to constitutional issues now beginning to emerge.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the meeting the Anglican Communion Office announced that the old, unincorporated constitution had been replaced by new ACC articles of association following registration with the U.K. Charity Commission.<\/p>\n
This change poses a raft of new questions. Is it right for a key instrument of the Anglican Communion to be enshrined in U.K. law in this way? Are there latent conflicts with the proposed Anglican Covenant, the role of the Lambeth Conference and the Primates\u2019 Meeting? Does the new arrangement partly disenfranchise ordinary ACC members?<\/p>\n
As he has done before, Archbishop Williams questioned whether the Communion\u2019s structures are adequate for the 21st century.<\/p>\n