Lambeth: bishops divided over opening Eucharist

Posted on July 22, 2008 
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Lambeth Conference opening Communion serviceThe opening Eucharist service of the 2008 Lambeth Conference exemplified everything that is wrong with the Communion and the Conference, with substance given a second place to ceremony, one Global South primate told ReligiousIntelligence.com. …

The tensions have led to three primates and an undisclosed number of bishops declining to receive the sacraments during the opening Eucharist, highlighting the tensions lurking beneath the surface of the every ten year gathering of the bishops of the Anglican Communion. …

– Report by George Conger at Religious Intelligence. (Photo: Lambeth Conference media.)