Three new bishops were elected to serve the Anglican Province of the Church of Rwanda’s missionary jurisdiction in North America at a June 13 meeting of the Rwandan House of Bishops, according to a press release distributed by the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA).
 
The candidates are: the Rev. Todd Hunter, director of West Coast Church Planting for the AMiA and the former president of Alpha USA; the Rev. Canon Doc Loomis, canon missioner for the AMiA and chairman of the committee on Mission for the Common Cause Partnership; and the Rev. Silas Tak Yin Ng, canon missioner for Asian initiatives for the AMiA. The consecrations will take place in September.
 
The timing of the announcement is intriguing given that the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA)—the successor to the Common Cause Partnership—is scheduled to meet starting Monday in Bedford, Texas. A constitution and canons have been proposed for the group, which hopes to receive official recognition as another Anglican Communion province in North America. One of the proposed canons requires that candidates for the episcopacy must receive two-thirds approval from the ACNA College of Bishops before the bishop-elect can be consecrated.
 
However, the AMiA, ACNA and the Anglican Church of Rwanda have a mutually agreed-upon protocol as described in Canon 5, Section 4 of the proposed canons under which the Church in Rwanda will continue to select bishops for the AMiA and that those bishops will be welcomed and seated in ACNA College of Bishops.
 
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