Archbishop Gomez said there was \u201ca very high approval rating\u201d\u009d for the ministry of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lambeth Conference, but he noted that the bishops raised questions \u201cabout the place of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and there were a lot of questions about the role of the primates\u2019 meeting in Anglican polity.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
The Covenant Design Group will meet in March 2009 to develop a new draft and prepare a report to the ACC for its May 1 to 12, 2009 meeting in Jamaica.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Gomez said he anticipates it would take three to five years for the provinces to sign up once a final draft was ratified by the ACC. \u201cThere is a strong feeling in some parts of the communion that the covenant, setting out our mutual responsibilities as a family of churches, needs to be in place as quickly as possible \u201d\u201d although there are other voices which still believe we have a way to go before we arrive at a mature text,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n