\u201cIs this the moment . . . when the fracture in the Anglican Communion becomes irreversible?\u201d Bishop Carrell asked the Archbishop of Canterbury in a message posted on Twitter on Saturday. \u201cAustralian bishops out of protocol control, two of their synods greeting a breakaway diocese. Archbishops from Rwanda, Australia and ACNA combine to inaugurate a new Anglican Church!\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, he said that there was a \u201crange of reactions\u201d to the consecration in his diocese. The failure of bishops in the Communion to inform the diocese of their intention to minister there was \u201cbewildering to many here\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fear that the significance of the weekend\u2019s incursion goes beyond the inauguration of a new Church and is a sign that the slowly emerging schism in the Anglican Communion is speeding up,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen the two largest dioceses in Australia recognise a new Anglican Church in another Anglican jurisdiction, we have a straightforward confusion of the goal of the Anglican Communion that we seek to fulfil the prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they may be one.\u201d<\/p>\n
In their joint statement on Tuesday, the Archbishops of ACNZP, the Most Revd Philip Richardson and the Most Revd Don Tamihere, wrote: \u201cThe disrespect for the normal protocols of the Anglican Communion and the lack of courtesy shown to our Church by these boundary-crossing bishops is disturbing, and we will be making an appropriate protest about their actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are especially concerned at the boundary crossing of bishops from the Anglican Church of Australia. We value our trans-Tasman relationship with our neighbouring Church and are disappointed to find a lack of respect for the jurisdiction of our Church….\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n The consecration of a bishop of a new Church of Confessing Anglicans in New Zealand, welcomed by synods in Australia, is a sign that the schism in the Anglican Communion is speeding up, the Bishop of Christchurch, Dr Peter Carrell, has suggestedhttps:\/\/t.co\/tOdNTZ7S8A<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Church Times (@ChurchTimes) October 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n