GAFCON Announces New Global Anglican Leadership Council - Voice of Nigeria Broadcasting Service

Conservative Anglican bishops seek 'disengagement' from Canterbury without naming rival leader

Weeks before the Rt. Rev. Sarah Mullally is officially installed as the first female archbishop of Canterbury, a group of conservative Anglican high-ranking clergy, known as GAFCON, renamed their body the Global Anglican Communion. They also elected a set of leaders to exercise “principled disengagement” from the archbishop and the historic center of Anglicanism in England. The four-day Global Anglican Future Conference meeting in Abuja, the Nig…

GAFCON Announces New Global Anglican Leadership Council - Voice of Nigeria Broadcasting Service

The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) has announced the establishment of a new governing body, the Global Anglican Council, to provide leadership for the Global Anglican Communion. In a statement issued by the GAFCON General Secretary, Paul Donison, the organisation said the decision followed the dissolution of the GAFCON Primates Council, which had guided the movement since its formation in 2008. According to the statement, the newly c…

‘Moral and spiritual authority’ of Archbishop of Canterbury ‘severely compromised’ says Gafcon Primate

GAFCON has issued an “Abuja Affirmation” signed by the Archbishop of Rwanda, Dr Laurent Mbanda, which calls for complete separation from the Anglican Communion’s Instruments of Communion. Dr Mbanda was announced last week as chairing Gafcon’s new ...

Archbishop of Sydney's statement on the Abuja Affirmation, Nigeria 2026

I have been enormously encouraged by the breadth and vitality of global Anglicanism displayed at the ‘G26’ meeting in Abuja Nigeria and I wholeheartedly welcome the shared commitment of majority-world Anglican provinces to accept the stewardship of the Anglican Communion. The Abuja Affirmation charts a path forward for global Anglicans faithful to the Lord and his mission and committed to the primacy, sufficiency and trustworthiness of God’s wor…