In a written statement given to the Anglican Communion News Service, the Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop Robin Eames of Armagh, unambiguously stated his expectation that the recommendations of the Windsor Report will be a decisive feature of the February primates’ meeting in Northern Ireland. Archbishop Eames repeated his support for implementing those resolutions not only as chairman of the Lambeth Commission on Communion, but also because those views represented his personal preferences.

Those remarks were published the same day that he was quoted in an interview with The Church of England Newspaper, saying he does not think it likely that the expressions of regret the Windsor Report seeks, and that the African churches have demanded from the Episcopal Church for its consecration of the Rev. Canon V. Gene Robinson as Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire, will materialize. In the interview he added his personal hope that the Church would begin to move on to other issues after the Feb. 20-26 primates’ meeting.

“I have been dismayed that certain remarks of mine in a telephone interview ... have been taken completely out of context to mean I believe the Windsor Report will not have much effect,” Archbishop Eames wrote. “Nothing could be further from my hopes and convictions for the Windsor Report which contains the unanimous recommendations of the Lambeth Commission after a year’s prayerful work.”