In a two minute clip, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says the Primates Meeting in Dublin was “wonderful” and “filled with grace.” She said the Primates have arrived at a clear sense of how they will work together, and that she hopes the primates who boycotted this meeting will “come back to the table.”
“We join the primates in renewing our commitment to a world in which no one lives in fear.”
Attendees to the Primates’ Meeting in Dublin issued a number of statements – including one pertaining to the death of gay Ugandan activist David Kato – and wrapped up their remaining business.
The Primates meeting in Dublin focused on the role of the Primates meeting, described in the Windsor Report and the Anglican Covenant as one of
This morning brings news that the most recent conversations among the Primates meeting in Dublin concern the question of whether there is an Anglican Church or are we “a communion of churches”? There’s much more to the answer of that question than mere linguistic style.
Most of the Primates (heads of Provincial Churches) of the Anglican Communion have arrived in Dublin, Ireland for their meeting. Seven are not attending because the Primate of the Episcopal Church Katharine Jefferts Schori is attending.
(Updated with a statement from the Presiding Bishop.) The Primates are meeting in Dublin this week. We are going to do our best not to gin up anxiety, or endow the event with a significance it does not possess. We will let you know who shows up, and who doesn’t, and what kind of news they make, if any.
Can it really be that absence of bodies and voices can be nearly as persuasive as presence and wisdom?
Archbishop of Kaduna, in the Church of Nigeria, Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon has urged Primates from the Global South not to boycott the Primates’ Meeting in Dublin in January.
It appears that there are now ten primates (just about a third 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).