The Queen, the supreme governor of the Church of England, appoints the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) is meeting and will pass two names to the Prime Minister, who will pass the first name to the Queen. This person will then be asked if he [and in the CofE it is still
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I am concerned about theological education, study, and formation within the Anglican Communion; especially of ordinands – and this ongoing in the life of the ordained; especially within my province; and also of all the People of God. My primary ministry is about this amongst young people. I pick up with interest the reports from
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This year celebrates the 80th anniversary of the “Bonn Agreement” between the Church of England and Old Catholics (Union of Utrecht): Each Communion recognises the catholicity and independence of the other and maintains its own. Each Communion agrees to admit members of the other Communion to participate in the Sacraments. Full Communion does not require
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Symmetry in the sanctuary I have tended to take care not to focus excessively on the Anglican Communion Crisis. It has clearly become important, however, that this pre-eminent liturgy blog outlines the issues and informs readers about what has been highlighted by Fr. Montgomery as being what is primarily wrong with the Anglican Communion today:
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I understand that the General Synod of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia meets this year from 10 to 14 May in Gisborne. I understand this – because I asked a General Synod member. Good luck to anyone trying to find this information online. It certainly isn’t mentioned on the General Synod
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I have regularly used a form of group lectio divina in catechumenate groups. It is regularly called the “African method”. This method was introduced by the African Delegation to the Lambeth Conference. Hence, it is known by both names: “Lambeth” and “African.”
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The Anglican Cathedral in Second Life was presented at a “fringe event” at Lambeth.
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ishop Richard Elena (Nelson, New Zealand) emailed his diocesan clergy that he decided he was unable to receive communion at the Lambeth opening service because of the, to him, unacceptable sermon.
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