News Updates

News Updates

4/28/2005

• Council to Send Observers to ACC Meeting

  In an all-day special session April 13 convened to address one issue, the national Executive Council asked the Episcopal Church’s three representatives to the Anglican Consultative Council to attend the June meeting unofficially as observers.

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• Presiding Bishop: More to Anglican Unity Than ACC

  Following the Executive Council's special session on Apri1 13, Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold spoke with The Living Church magazine's News Editor Steve Waring about the day's events.

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• Bishop Sauls: Firm Desire to Remain in Communion

  The Rt. Rev. Stacy Sauls, Bishop of Lexington, is a member of the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council. Following the meeting of the council April 13 in Mundelein, Ill., he was interviewed by The Living Church magazine's freelance reporter George Conger concerning the council’s decision to voluntarily withdraw its members from the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).

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• Panel of reference will possess Communion's moral authority

  The Archbishop of Canterbury’s forthcoming "panel of reference" will not have the power to compel bishops to offer delegated episcopal pastoral oversight, a spokesman for the Anglican Consultative Council told The Living Church on April 18, but its recommendations will possess the moral authority of the Anglican Communion.

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• Bishops request emergency meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury

  Approximately one-fifth of the Episcopal Church’s diocesan bishops have requested an emergency meeting for late May in London with Archbishop Rowan Williams. In a second letter written to Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold, the bishops ask for creation of a bi-partisan commission to see if it is possible to address the “the question of our ability to walk together with one another and in a wider Communion.”

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• Letters Express Bishops' Concerns to Archbishop of Canterbury, Presiding Bishop

  The Living Church recently came into possession of two letters sent by a group of bishops from the Episcopal Church to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold. Because public interest in the content of the letters seems significant, these letters are being made available.

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• Bishop Griswold Asks for Clarification

  Stating that concerns about the Episcopal Church are “quite properly addressed” to him, Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold said he was not aware that the group of 21 bishops who wrote him on April 6 also had made an “urgent request” the same day for a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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• Bishop Duncan: We're the Anglicans here

  At the conclusion of the second annual council meeting of the Anglican Communion Network held April 18-20 in Bedford, Texas, Suzanne Gill, communications director for the Diocese of Fort Worth and a correspondent of The Living Church, sat down for a one-on-one interview with the Rt. Rev. Robert W. Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh and moderator of the network.

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• Canadian Bishops Won't Halt Blessings of Same-Sex Unions

  The Anglican Church of Canada’s House of Bishops agreed to honor, in part, the primates request to enact a moratorium on rites for the blessing of same-sex unions. The bishops announced they would prohibit new rites, but would not ban existing ones - a response primates from the global south found inadequate.

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