Bishop Lawrence: GAFCON is heir apparent

Posted on August 4, 2008 
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Bishop Mark Lawrence of South CarolinaThe Global Anglican Fellowship Conference (GAFCON) is the heir apparent to assume leadership of the Anglican Communion, said three bishops during an informal media briefing this afternoon at the Lambeth Conference.

Bishops Mark Lawrence of South Carolina and Keith Ackerman of Quincy were joined by Bishop Hector Zavala of Chile from the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone on the campus of the University of Kent, Canterbury, shortly before Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams was scheduled to deliver his final presidential address of the conference. …

– Report from The Living Church. (Photo: Bill Murton, Diocese of South Carolina.)