Reformation Revisited — Gafcon Australia

Posted on October 31, 2025 
Filed under Anglican Communion, GAFCON Australia

Here’s an announcement from the Board of Gafcon Australia, 31 October 2025 (Reformation Day):

“Dear brothers and sisters,

On 16 October the Gafcon Primates Council released a statement about the Global Anglican Communion. In this statement, they announced a ‘reordering of the Anglican Communion’ centred on the Bible. As the Gafcon Australia Board, we welcome this announcement and look forward to working with our brothers and sisters around the world to reorder the Communion.

Gafcon has been calling the Instruments of Communion (the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates’ Meeting) to repent of their drift from historic, biblical Christian teaching since 2008. In the absence of such repentance and in light of the continued direction of the Canterbury Communion, they have decided that it is time for decisive action.

The Gafcon Primates Council have now officially rejected the Instruments of Communion …

The Anglican Church of Australia remains ‘in Communion’ with the See of Canterbury by virtue of our Constitution. That can only be changed by the General Synod with the agreement of three quarters of all the Dioceses, including all five Metropolitan Dioceses.

That is unlikely to occur in the near future. However, our ‘fellowship’ with Canterbury and other Anglican Churches has been seriously impaired for some time. …”

– Read it all here.