Tag: Anglican Communion

The Church of Ireland, a progressive province of the Anglican Communion, has grown by 50% in the last few years.

I indicated to Archbishop Williams my intentions with regard to my giving permission for these blessings to begin to take place. We went on to have a very helpful and frank conversation about the implications involved and I expressed my own personal commitment and the strong desire of the Diocese of Niagara to remain in communication and dialogue with our sister and brother Anglicans around the world.

Colin Coward of Changing Attitude-England has looked into charges made by Chris Sugden of Anglican Mainstream, who reported that the Episcopal Church had withheld $100,000 in donations to the Church of Sudan after Sudanese Archbishop Daniel Deng called for the resignation of Bishop Gene Robinson.

As was reported here last month, a mission team from the Episcopal Church traveled to Southern Sudan. The purpose of the trip was to do groundwork for the expansion of diocese to diocese relationships. We now have reports on how things went.

I am appointing a Doctrine and Worship Committee … to create a liturgy, appropriate protocols and procedures and an evaluative process. This will determine whether or not the blessing of same-gender couples civilly married will become a practice among supportive parishes within the Diocese of Ottawa…. – Bishop John Chapman

The first meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council’s International Anglican Women’s Network (IAWN) took place last week at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York.

The Archbishop of Province de l’Eglise Anglicane du Burundi, Bernard Ntahoturi, has said that his province “doesn’t want the crossing of borders” by Bishops and

The Church of Ireland Gazette believes that the Primates Meeting should remain a place of consultative fellowship and stay away from a more formal Primates Council.