--- "Rev. Dr. Derrick Hassert"
<cranmerandlaud@...> wrote:

> I think the model that the Orthodox follow is the
> best one for orthodox Anglicanism in America, but
> for it to work the episcopate actually has to exert
> authority over those bishops who deviate from the
> Catholic Faith. Yes, there is jurisdictional chaos
> (esp in the United States) ><snip>
>    
>   DH+    
> 
> Knox Duncan <knoxduncan@...> wrote:
> A "genuinely global communion of interdependent
> autonomous Churches" seems to me to be precisely the
model of the ancient  Eastern Orthodox Church as 
> distinct from the increasingly anachronistic "one
> way or the highway" of the Roman model. Regards.
KnoxDuncan@...
> 
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Brothers+

I hear you, but in my opinion, a "genuinely global
communion of interdependent autonomous Churches"
is so inherently contradictory it will never achieve
the unity for which our Lord prayed.  In the Continuum
we have seen such a proliferation of bishops that in
some cases, we have bishops with one congregation in
their diocese.  There has been no communion between
many of these bishops, in fact there is open animosity
in some cases.  How does that differ from
congregationalism?  

Charles+
Church of the Good Shepherd, Indianapolis