A report from the Episcopal News Service quotes several American bishops’ opinions on the recent appointment of Josiah Idowu-Fearon, a Nigerian bishop, as Secretary General of the Anglican Communion Office:
“Josiah is, above all, a man of communion, a careful listener, and a respecter of the different ways in which we are called to articulate and live the good news of God in Jesus Christ,” former Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold told Episcopal News Service following the appointment.
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Connecticut Bishop Ian Douglas, a member of the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion, said he has known Idowu-Fearon for more than a decade through a variety of inter-Anglican bodies and responsibilities and finds him “committed to God’s mission of reconciliation, both between people of different faiths and between the churches of the Anglican Communion.”
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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, also a member of the Anglican Communion Standing Committee, said Idowu-Fearon “has worked hard to keep the conversation going among people who would often not want to talk to one another.”
And, in the comments to the ENS report, Bishop Pierre Whalon writes in response to other comments to the article:
Responding to Whalon, Jeremy Bates, writes, in part,
Since his appointment his views on the criminalization of homosexuality have been scrutinized and he has issued a statement saying the reports are “misleading” and “misrepresent” his views.
Alda Morgan comments,
Also commenting on the ENS report, Cynthia Katsarelis writes, in part,
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