Seventy-four priests who are affiliated with Communion Partners have pledged to fulfill non-episcopal requests made by bishops who met with the Archbishop of Canterbury on Sept. 1.
 
The priests, who lead parishes with a collective baptized membership of 60,000, list five commitments regarding their response to the Anglican Communion Covenant. The priests say they will:
 
• Continue to study the covenant and to pray and work for its adoption.
 
• Endorse the first three sections of the Ridley Cambridge Draft of the Covenant and the Anaheim Statement. Once the covenant is complete, they will “study, endorse and promote it to the General Convention.”
 
• Record their endorsement on the Communion Partners' website.
 
• Seek to form and engage in “companion domestic mission relationships among dioceses and congregations within the Episcopal Church.”
 
• Seek to build ministry relationships with dioceses and congregations in other provinces of the Anglican Communion.
 
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