Preparing for Primates’ Meeting 2017
Posted on September 21, 2017
Filed under Anglican Communion, GAFCON
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, speaks about his hopes for the Primates’ meeting next month, where there will be a focus on the issues facing the world, including human sexuality (didn’t the last Primates’ meeting speak clearly about that?), the environment and climate change, evangelism, refugees, conflict and persecution.
See also:
- The GAFCON statement on the 2016 Primates’ meeting.
- September 2017 Pastoral letter from The Most Rev’d Nicholas D. Okoh, Chairman of the GAFCON Primates Council…
“I attended the Canterbury Primates Meeting held in January 2016 because I believed it might be possible to make a new start and change the pattern of repeated failure to preserve the integrity of Anglican faith and order. I was disappointed. The Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Lusaka the following April neutered the Primates’ action to distance The Episcopal Church of the United States (TEC) from Communion decision making.
TEC has not repented, and continues to take aggressive legal action against orthodox dioceses. For example…”