Tallahassee has been chosen as the meeting place for Anglican Church leaders from across the United States and Canada.
The Anglican Church in North America will hold its Archbishop’s Cabinet and Executive Committee meetings, as well as Anglican Relief and Development board meetings in Florida Capital City.
The bishops and leaders will be shaping orthodox Anglicanism in North America. Keep reading.
"...shaping orthodox Anglicanism in North America." Pretty scary thought.
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2 comments:
Robin,
Thanks for posting my favourite picture of Bob Duncan again!
Richard,
The College of Bishops now has 45 members. This means that it only has 39 members less than the ACNA Provincial Council. The Council has 84 members, 21 of whom are bishops. One-half of the members of the Council are clergy, counting these bishops.
According to one article as many as 40 bishops will be present for this gathering of ACNA bishops and leaders in Tallahassee. If this is correct, it means that the Archbishop's Cabinet, a structure for which the ACNA governing documents make no provision, and the Executive Committee are composed largely of bishops. 40 bishops is almost the entire College of Bishops. They will presumably be making plans for the 2012 Provincial Assembly, which will be asked to ratify a number of changes to the ACNA governing documents. The Provincial Council adopted these changes this past June.
The College of Bishops is likely to authorize two orders for the administration of Holy Communion in advance of the Assembly. The debut of these orders at the Assembly is likely to be accompanied by much fanfare. We can expect a lot of hoopla surrounding their debut on the ACNA website. In all likelihood they will be contemporary language versions of the 1549 and 1928 orders for the administration of Holy Communion and will include optional provisions taken from one or more of the Anglican missals. There is a possibility that one of the orders may be a contemporary language version of the 1962 Canadian order for the administration of Holy Communion but it is less likely.
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