It appears that there are now ten primates (just about a quarter of the total number) who have indicated that they will not attend the scheduled regular meeting of the Anglican Primates (one of the “Instruments of Unity” listed in the Windsor Report).
The Church Times has the list with some new names, in particular the Primate of the Southern Cone and the Primate of Rwanda.
“[I]t is understood that the Primate of South-East Asia, Dr John Chew; the Primate in Jerusalem & the Middle East, Dr Mouneer Anis; and the Primate of the Indian Ocean, the Most Revd Ian Ernest, will not go to Dublin.
Furthermore it is expected that two new Primates, Presiding Bishop Tito Zavala, Primate of the Southern Cone, and the Most Revd Onesphore Rwage, Primate of Rwanda, will also boycott the meeting.
In the statement, which came out of a meeting of the GAFCON Primates’ Council in Oxford in October, but was released only on Wednesday, five Primates — Dr Justice Akrofi of West Africa, Dr Valentino Mokiwa of Tanzania, the Most Revd Nicholas Okoh of Nigeria, the Most Revd Henry Orombi of Uganda, and Dr Eliud Wabukala of Kenya — say they ‘join with other Primates from the Global South in declaring that we will not be present’.”
More here.
That last paragraph quoted above points out that the Oxford Statement (a communique by the GAFCON Primate’s Council which rejects the Anglican Covenant) was apparently held secret for roughly a month before being released on the morning that the Church of England’s General Synod was voting on whether or not to take the first steps toward ratifying the Covenant.
UPDATED: Thinking Anglicans has this round up of stories on the Primate’s meeting that were posted this morning, with some additional coverage by the Church of England Newspaper.