Primates from 13 of the 38 provinces within the Anglican Communion have called upon the “faithful” in the Episcopal Church to “resist and confront” infidelity and to join the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes [NACDP].

In a Feb. 6 letter addressed to the Eames Commission, which held its first meeting at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, on Feb. 9, the primates gave their support to the network and accused the General Convention of shattering the unity of the Church and promoting “false teaching” by condoning same-sex blessings and approving the consecration of a sexually active homosexual person as Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire.

The 13 provinces are: Nigeria, the West Indies, the Southern Cone, the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Tanzania, Central Africa, South India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, and Philippines. They wrote that the “election, confirmation, and consecration of Canon Gene Robinson” was a “direct repudiation of the clear teaching of the holy scriptures, historic faith and order of the church.”