News Updates

News Updates

6/23/2005

• Bishop Roskam to Serve in Two Capacities at Nottingham

  The Rt. Rev. Catherine S. Roskam will be the only Episcopalian at the upcoming Anglican Consultative Council meeting to serve in two capacities. She is part of the unofficial delegation of observers from the Episcopal Church that includes the Rev. Robert L. Sessum, rector of Church of the Good Shepherd in Lexington, Ky., and Josephine H. Hicks.

  Posted on June 23, 2005

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• ACC Meeting Opens with Dinner and Orientation

  Unofficial representatives from the Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada dined with, but were later seated apart from the other Anglican Consultative Council delegates for the opening orientation session on June 18. The 10-day meeting is considered by many to be a “make or break” one for the Episcopal Church and its relations within the Anglican Communion.

  Posted on June 23, 2005

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• ACC Opening Session Surprise

  The opening session of the triennial Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) contained some legislative surprises, including the presence of two resolutions not yet seen by the delegates. They have the potential to reshape a meeting whose focus since the February primates’ meeting has been the place of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada within the Anglican Communion.

  Posted on June 23, 2005

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• Withdrawn Status of North Americans Noted

  The 13th triennial Anglican Consultative Council opened with housekeeping items and a distinction noted about the withdrawn North American delegates being seated separately. After morning worship, ACC chairman, the Rt. Rev. John Paterson of New Zealand formally opened the first session and introduced the new ACC General Secretary, the Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon.

  Posted on June 23, 2005

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• Status Quo at ACC Holds on Second Day

  Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams defused an early crisis at the Anglican Consultative Council triennial meeting in Nottingham today, pouring cold water on attempts to force an early resolution of the North American question.

  Posted on June 23, 2005

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• Archbishop Says Common Ground Still Exists

  In a June 20 presidential address that spoke at different points to many of the factions represented among the Anglican Consultative Council, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams urged everyone to give consideration to the kind of message about the “good news” of God that the world will hear from this gathering of Christians.

  Posted on June 23, 2005

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• Communion's Spotlight is on Presentation Panels

  Twenty-two months after the watershed decision by the Episcopal Church to consecrate a "partnered" homosexual person as bishop, the Anglican Communion focused its attention June 21 on a presentation panel from the Episcopal Church and another from the Anglican Church of Canada which last summer endorsed the “sanctity” of same-sex relationships.

  Posted on June 23, 2005

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• Vote on Resolution to Expel North Americans Scheduled

  A resolution seeking the expulsion of the Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada from all “official entities of the Communion” until Lambeth 2008 has been brought to the floor of the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in Nottingham, England.

  Posted on June 23, 2005

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