Fisking Bishop Fearon: The Lambeth Establishment takes on the Global South
Posted on December 21, 2017
Filed under Anglican Communion, GAFCON
“Three remarkable letters appeared this past week from Anglican sources:
- one from Nicholas Okoh, the Primate of Nigeria and Chairman of the GAFCON Primates Council;
- another from twelve Primates of the Global South Network, chaired by Mouneer Anis, the Bishop of Egypt and former Primate,
- and a third from Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon, General Secretary of the Anglican Consultative Council.
These letters have to do with an important question: who is an Anglican, and in particular what is the status of the Anglican Church in North America?
The answers of the three authors could not be more divergent. …”
– Professor Stephen Noll assesses the response of the Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council, Dr Idowu-Fearon, to the GAFCON Chairman’s December letter.
He warns that the Secretary General is ‘edging towards papalism’ by making relationship with Canterbury ‘the unique feature of Anglicanism’.
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