South American Synod to Consider Uruguay's Request to Leave

A special session of the general synod of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone will be held in November in Asunción, Paraguay to respond to the Nov 12, 2010 vote by the Diocese of Uruguay to quit the province and seek alternative metropolitan oversight.

In a statement released on behalf of the province by the Bishop of Bolivia on June 12, the Rt. Rev. Frank Lyons reported the May 16-18 provincial executive council meeting agreed to bring forward by two years the next meeting of synod to respond to the diocese’s request.

In September 2010, the South American synod rejected a proposal put forward by the Diocese of Uruguay to allow dioceses to have a local option on women clergy. While the resolution was passed in the lay and episcopal orders of synod, it failed to garner majority support from the clergy order.

Uruguay’s diocesan synod responded the following month, endorsing a resolution asking for a transfer out of the province within the year.

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