[The Living Church] 14 Jul 2008--The Rt. Rev. John W. Howe, Bishop of Central Florida, has rescinded his personal support for the Anglican Communion Network led by Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh.
Saying that he was to remain in The Episcopal Church and in full communion with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Bishop Howe announced in his July issue in the diocesan newspaper that he has switched his allegiance to the Anglican Communion Institute.
“In my opinion, the Anglican Communion Institute has inherited the original vision of the Network: to work to promote orthodoxy within The Episcopal Church, and to maintain our relationships with the broader Anglican Communion,” Bishop Howe said.
Bishop Howe was critical of Bishop Duncan’s leadership as Network moderator, saying that Bishop Duncan is clearly committed to forming “a new ecclesiastical structure” in North America, hoping to draw together the so-called Anglican diaspora. This group includes, among others, the Anglican Mission in the Americas (Rwanda), the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (Nigeria), the Reformed Episcopal Church, which broke away from The Episcopal Church over ecumenism and ritual in the 1870s, as well as various other groups associated with African or South American jurisdictions.
Bishop Howe said he has grown increasingly disenchanted with the direction of the Network in recent years, noting that the organization is now made up of far more people who have left The Episcopal Church than those who remain inside it.
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