Read it all here: Dr Rowan Williams adopted unusually forthright language to accuse the hardline traditionalists of lacking legitimacy One of his staff even suggested the rebels were becoming a “Protestant sect”. The Archbishop’s comments follow the creation at the weekend of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Foca), a global network for millions of Anglicans [...]

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Well, I suppose he would, wouldn’t he? A new North American group claiming to embrace “traditional Anglican values” will not last long, the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop has predicted. Bishop Gene Robinson, an openly homosexual man living openly with a partner, whose 2003 consecration as bishop of the diocese of New Hampshire created [...]

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From here. Leigh Anne Williams Staff writer Jun 27, 2009 The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) elected its first archbishop and ratified a constitution and canons at its first Provincial Assembly in Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex. from June 22 to 25. However, the church is still seeking recognition as a new province within [...]

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Below is a transcription of an interview I conducted with Bishop Ron Ferris. Bishop Ferris recently joined ANiC and has a focus on church planting in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Peter: Please describe for the uninitiated what is going on this week, and why? Bishop Ron: It’s the coming together of a new [...]

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I had an opportunity to interview Bishop Don Harvey regarding ACNA and ANiC, and below is a transcript of that interview (it’s as accurate as possible, though some of the grammar and phrases have been modified to make more sense in a written form). Peter: Please describe for the uninitiated what is going on this [...]

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I have to confess I attended as participant, not blogger. However in the spirit of shameless plagiarism, here’s what BablyBlue had to say, who was liveblogging it. Just recorded the most amazing procession of clergy and bishops into Christ Church Plano. It was just really moving to me – I recognized so many of those [...]

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We decamped from St Vincent’s over to Christ Church Plano for the consecration. Here are a few pics to keep you going…

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Living Church has the main story here. His Beatitude, the Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) announced recently that his church has ended its ecumenical relations with The Episcopal Church, and will establish instead formal ecumenical relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). [...]

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Transcribed interview (courtesy of Marilyn): Saturday, June 20, 2009 From here – 17-21 minute mark. Interviewer: Roger Bolton, BBC Radio 4 (Roger Bolton) Now a new church will be set up tomorrow with the coming together of traditionalist Anglicans who have broken away from the American Episcopal Church (ECUSA) and the Anglican Church of Canada [...]

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A few pictures of the Canadian delegation. Who let this guy in? No collection of pictures would be complete without the most important member of the delegation.

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Some notes from the Primates Panel Q & A from last night (not a complete transcript): Attending: Archbishop Elect Bob Duncan (ACNA) Bishop Tito Zavala (Southern Cone) Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi (Kenya) Bishop Alfred Nwaizuzu (Nigeria) Bishop Tak Meng Wong (SE Asia) Q1) What specific questions do you have for the new province to be more [...]

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Just announced here (in the ACNA assembly), the House of Bishops in Uganda have voted to officially recognise ACNA.

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Proposed Canons are here. We are expecting this afternoon to be a hotbed of dissent and mistrust as these highly volatile Canon things are discussed. Sparks could fly as delegates discuss the relative meanings and inflections implied by the definition of ‘is’. Oh, sorry, wrong conference. Actually, a rather scary amount of peace, tranquility and [...]

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I hear that Pastor Warren is well known or something south of the border. So I thought I’d attend his plenary session, and I got a few bits FYI, though I confess I was in dire need of a coffee infusion so wasn’t quite as alert as I could have been! 1 But now, this [...]

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A catchy prase for the youth of ACNA – here: http://yacna.org/.

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This morning has consisted of two plenary sessions, the first morning prayer with Rev David Short and the second session with Pastor Rick Warren. Below are my incomplete notes from Rev Short’s sermon. Acts 5 17Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducee’s, were filled with [...]

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Full list of visitors to ACNA: Anglican official delegations – West Africa: Archbishop Justice Akrofi – Nigeria: Bishop Alfred Nwaizuzu – Uganda: Bishop Evans Kisekka (Representing Archbishop Henry Orombi) – Kenya: Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi – Southern Cone: Archbishop Gregory Venables; Bishop Tito Zavala (Chile); Bishop Frank Lyons (Bolivia); Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti (Recife, Brazil) – Jerusalem [...]

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Deelgates arriving for this afternoon’s session…. Constitution & Canons intro. Proposed Constitution. Proposed Canons. Bp Duncan speaking. Beginnning with prayer. Mark’s Gospel – story of the storm on the sea. Why are you afraid – do you have no faith? Let us go across to the other side. Even the wind and the sea obey. [...]

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