South African primate wants to consecrate women bishops
The Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd. Thabo Makgoba, said yesterday that one of his dreams during his term of office was to consecrate the Church’s first woman bishop. Makgoba made his remarks at...
View ArticleFurther adventures in Anglican self-trivialization
We have been covering the various maneuverings ahead of the January meeting of the Primates of the Anglican Communion. It is possible that at least some primates who think that God frowns upon physical...
View ArticleMore Anglican primates indicate they will not attend Dublin meeting
It appears that there are now ten primates (just about a quarter of the total number) who have indicated that they will not attend the scheduled regular meeting of the Anglican Primates (one of the...
View ArticleNigerian Archbishop plea: don’t boycott the Primates’ meeting
The Church Times reports: An Archbishop in the Church of Nigeria has urged Primates from the Global South not to boycott the Primates’ Meeting in Dublin in January (News, 26 November). Writing in the...
View ArticleIn advance of Dublin, settling into positions and saying prayers
We mentioned on Friday that GAFCON Primates had complained about the construction of the agenda for the upcoming primates’ meeting in Dublin, January 25-30: they said they’d not been properly...
View ArticleThe Primates are meeting in Dublin this week
Updated at bottom with a statement from Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori The Primates are meeting in Dublin this week. We are going to do our best not to gin up anxiety, or endow the event...
View ArticlePrimates arrive in Dublin
Most of the Primates (heads of Provincial Churches) of the Anglican Communion have arrived in Dublin, Ireland for their meeting. Seven are not attending because the Primate of the Episcopal Church...
View ArticlePrimates discussing the nature of the Anglican Communion
This morning brings news that the most recent conversations among the Primates meeting in Dublin concern the question of whether there is an Anglican Church or are we “a communion of churches”? There’s...
View ArticlePrimates today: What is the role of our meeting; best response to...
The Primates meeting in Dublin focused on the role of the Primates meeting, described in the Windsor Report and the Anglican Covenant as one of the Instruments of Unity; and on the issue of gender...
View ArticleIn a coda for Kato, Primates conclude meeting
On their final day together, attendees to the Primates’ Meeting in Dublin issued a number of statements – including one pertaining to the death of gay Ugandan activist David Kato – and wrapped up their...
View ArticleChicago Consultation on Primates’ condemnation of anti-gay violence
The Chicago Consultation issued this statement today from its co-convener, the Rev. Lowell Grisham: “The Chicago Consultation is grateful to the Primates of the Anglican Communion for decrying the...
View ArticlePB reflects, Primates expound: video from the Primates meeting
In this two minute clip, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says the Primates Meeting in Dublin was “wonderful” and “filled with grace.” She said the Primates have arrived at a clear sense of...
View ArticleThe primates explain why the primates meet
The Primates have agreed on the reasons they meet. Here are the reasons: bring the realities, expectations and hopes of the context from which they come, thus representing the local to the global learn...
View ArticleThe Primates rediscover the purpose of The Primates Meeting
The Primate of Scotland, the Most Rev. David Chillingworth, has written a very sensible reflection on what took place at the Primates Meeting last week, that concludes as follows: As the statements...
View ArticleAnglican Communion: The shape of things to come
Paul Bagshaw has written an essay on the state of the Anglican Communion after the most recent Primates Meeting, and his thoughts are similar to mine. The threat of the primates dictating terms beyond...
View ArticleSir Paul Reeves, Archbishop and Governor General has died
An Anglican Archbishop who also served as New Zealand’s first Maori Governor-General, has died. He was 78. Sir Paul Reeves was the Primate of New Zealand in the early eighties and then was appointed by...
View ArticleParsing the latest from the GAFCON Primates
A few weeks ago, the primates of the Global South Anglican group released a statement from their meeting in China. We didn’t jump right on it for two reasons: the first is that there didn’t seem to be...
View ArticleNicholas Okoh and the women he leads
In case there was any confusion over the question of where CANA Provincial Primatial Archbishop Nicholas Okoh stands on questions of gender and morality – i.e., what makes for turpitude – the Church of...
View ArticleNo primates have refused Welby’s invitation…so far!
According to the Church Times, the Primates’ first responses to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s invitation to meet next January “vary from the enthusiastic to the heavily caveated.” So far, no one has...
View ArticleRepercussions for Church of England after Primates vote?
Noted theater director, Bill Bankes-Jones, has started a petition to remove Church of England Bishops from the House of Lords, citing UK anti-discrimination laws as cause for ouster from the...
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