Author: John B. Chilton

The Right Reverend Thabo Cecil Makgoba (47) presently Bishop of Grahamstown has been elected as the next Archbishop of Cape Town. He was ordained in 1990 and has a masters degree in Applied and Educational Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is completing his doctoral studies at the University of Cape Town. He is currently on sabbatical and will be at Harvard University from the end of September 2007.

Was He sent, think you, as any man might suppose, to establish a sovereignty, to inspire fear and terror? Not so. But in gentleness and meekness has He sent Him, as a king might send his son who is a king. He sent Him, as sending God; He sent Him, as a man unto men; He sent Him, as Saviour, as using persuasion, not force: for force is no attribute of God.

On 24 September 673, he summoned the Synod of Hertford. Amongst other things, that Synod issued canons dealing with the rights and obligations of clergy and restricted bishops to working in their own dioceses and not intruding on the ministry of neighbouring bishops. The canons were based on those of the Council of Chalcedon, in 451.

The Lead can reveal that today – mere hours before he jets off for America in what could be a turning point in the future of the Anglican Communion – the Archbishop of Canterbury will celebrate a Eucharist with a rag-tag group of renegades and scoundrels.

Archbishop of Canterbury: “Following on from his visit to the United States …, Dr Rowan Williams will visit Armenia, Syria and Lebanon, from 22nd –

The attention given to the Zimbabwe government-owned Harare Herald has drawn a strong letter of correction of the paper’s reporting from the provincial secretary of the Province of Central Africa: “Contrary to The Herald’s report that the Anglican Province of Central Africa broke up on the 9th September 2007, the fact is the Church of the Province of Central Africa remains strongly intact.”