Nairobi conference confirms major realignment in Anglican Communion<\/b><\/p>\n
Opening news conference, Monday 21st October 2013<\/p>\n
The second Global Anglican Future Conference, which opens today in Nairobi, is confirmation that the churches involved in the GAFCON movement are committed to the Anglican Communion and modelling how the communion should operate in the 21st century.<\/p>\n
Organisers say the movement has grown since the first conference in Jerusalem in 2008.<\/p>\n
“We have exceeded the first GAFCON both in number and reach” said the General Secretary of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, Dr Peter Jensen. “We have also surpassed all expectations here in Nairobi.”<\/p>\n
Although initially expecting 1100, the final total is 1,352 Archbishops, Bishops, clergy and lay people, men and women, from almost 40 countries.
\nThe number of bishops attending is 331, of whom 30 are Archbishops.<\/p>\n