In an article titled “Synod members support for Bishop Minns” comes this interesting nugget about the trip Archbishop Akinola is making to Virginia this weekend to install Bishop Minns as the Missionary Bishop for CANA:
Lambeth Palace today confirmed the Archbishop of Canterbury has written to the African Primate asking him to cancel his trip to Virginia to carry out the service. A spokesman for Dr Rowan Williams confirmed a letter had been sent to the Archbishop of Nigeria, while it has also been reported that the Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has also appealed to Bishop Akinola not to carry out the installation at Hylton Memorial Chapel in Woodbridge, Virginia. She is reported to have said such an action would “violate the ancient customs of the church, in terms of the sacrosanct boundaries of individual bishops” and would not “help the efforts of reconciliation that are taking place in the Episcopal Church and in the Anglican Communion as a whole.” But Mr O’Brien said he would be giving the greeting to Mr Minns to show solidarity with orthodox Anglicans in North America.
The full article is here: Anglican Mainstream » Synod members support for Bishop Minns