Thursday, December 04, 2008

Lambeth Palace on new province as Gafcon primates fly in for summit

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2008/12/lambeth-palace.html#more

[Times Online] 4 Dec 2008--As the Washington Post reports, conservatives from The Episcopal Church 'have voted to form their own branch of Anglicanism in the United States and said they would seek new recognition in the worldwide church because of their growing disenchantment over the ordination of an openly gay bishop and other liberal developments.' Today Lambeth Palace, although not the Archbishop of Canterbury in person, has at last made a comment on this, and the comment at first glance seems to make it clear that this new province will not receive formal recognition any time soon. In fact it appears pretty brutal in its dismissal of the Common Cause initiative. Hong Kong, don't forget, was recognised extremely fast once its three dioceses decided to seek independence.

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