Rejecting Canterbury Decision, Conservative Bishops Claim Lead of Anglican Communion

Rejecting Canterbury decision, conservative bishops claim lead of Anglican Communion

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — It is not clear exactly whether the statement, which reprises familiar rhetoric from earlier declarations, will have an effect.

Poggo Responds to GAFCON Communion Launch

Bishop Anthony Poggo, the Anglican Communion’s secretary general, responded to GAFCON’s October 16 about launching a Global Anglican Communion with a calm and gracious pastoral letter. He urged deeper engagement with the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals, which seek to maintain the greatest degree of communion possible among Anglicans at a time of deep disagreement. Poggo also spoke charitably of GAFCON’s witness as a “reform and renewal movement,” while …

Rejecting Canterbury Decision, Conservative Bishops Claim Lead of Anglican Communion

Weeks after the appointment of the Rt. Rev. Sarah Mullally as the leader of the Anglican Communion, conservative Anglican prelates in Africa have rejected the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and have proclaimed their own network of conservative churches the official voice of Anglicanism. “The majority of the Anglican Communion still believes that the Bible requires a male-only episcopacy. Therefore, her appointment will make it impossi…

Gafcon letter declares that it is the Communion now, minus Canterbury and all related ‘Instruments’

GAFCON is “now the Global Anglican Communion”, the chairman of the group’s Primates Council, the Archbishop of Rwanda, Dr Laurent Mbanda, has declared. In a letter to supporters on Thursday, Dr Mbanda wrote that the Gafcon Primates Council had met...