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Subject: ACNS3652 Anglican Communion - Commission announced


> ACNS 3652     |     LAMBETH PALACE     |     28 OCTOBER 2003
>
> Anglican Communion - Commission announced
>
> [ACNS source: Lambeth Palace] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan
> Williams, has announced the makeup and the terms of reference for a
> Commission to look at life in the Anglican Communion in the light of
> recent events. It is to be made up of members appointed by the
> Archbishop of Canterbury and will be chaired by the Most Revd Robin
> Eames, Archbishop of Armagh.
>
> The Commission, which is expected to begin its work early in the New
> Year, was formed as a result of a request from the recent Primates
> meeting at Lambeth Palace to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It will take
> particular account of the decision to authorise a service for use in
> connection with same sex unions in the Diocese of New Westminster,
> Canada, and the expected Consecration of the Revd Canon V Gene Robinson
> as Bishop Co-adjutor of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church (USA) on
> Sunday, November 2nd.
>
> Membership of the Commission has been drawn up by Dr Williams in
> consultation and reflects the breadth and diversity of the Anglican
> Communion as well as providing substantial canonical, theological and
> ecclesiological expertise. The Commission was requested by the Primates
> to report within twelve months (that is, by October 2004) to the
> Archbishop of Canterbury in preparation for ensuing meetings of the
> Primates and the Anglican Consultative Council.
>
> Dr Williams said that the Commission's main task would be to offer
> advice on finding a way through the situation which currently threatens
> to divide the Communion:
>
> "The Primates were clear that the Anglican Communion could be
> approaching a crucial and critical point in its life. The responses of
> Provinces to developing events will determine the future life of our
> Communion in a profound way and we need to take time for careful prayer,
> reflection and consideration to discern God's will for the whole
> Communion. This Commission, under the Communion's longest serving
> Primate, is intended to contribute to our finding a way forward."
>
> Dr Eames said he was deeply conscious of the challenge: "I am conscious
> of the importance and the delicacy of the work the Commission will have
> to undertake. It is important to see the whole of the task - we have not
> been charged with finding the answers to the questions of sexuality, but
> with assisting the Communion to respond to recent developments in our
> churches in North America in a way which is fully faithful to Christ's
> call for the Unity of his Church."
>
>
> The full mandate and membership list follows:
>
> The mandate
>
> The Archbishop of Canterbury requests the Commission:
>
> 1. To examine and report to him by 30th September 2004, in preparation
> for the ensuing meetings of the Primates and the Anglican Consultative
> Council, on the legal and theological implications flowing from the
> decisions of the Episcopal Church (USA) to appoint a priest in a
> committed same sex relationship as one of its bishops, and of the
> Diocese of New Westminster to authorise services for use in connection
> with same sex unions, and specifically on the canonical understandings
> of communion, impaired and broken communion, and the ways in which
> provinces of the Anglican Communion may relate to one another in
> situations where the ecclesiastical authorities of one province feel
> unable to maintain the fullness of communion with another part of the
> Anglican Communion.
>
> 2. Within their report, to include practical recommendations (including
> reflection on emerging patterns of provision for episcopal oversight for
> those Anglicans within a particular jurisdiction, where full communion
> within a province is under threat) for maintaining the highest degree of
> communion that may be possible in the circumstances resulting from these
> decisions, both within and between the churches of the Anglican
> Communion.
>
> 3. Thereafter, as soon as practicable, and with particular reference to
> the issues raised in Section IV of the Report of the Lambeth Conference
> 1998, to make recommendations to the Primates and the Anglican
> Consultative Council, as to the exceptional circumstances and conditions
> under which, and the means by which, it would be appropriate for the
> Archbishop of Canterbury to exercise an extraordinary ministry of
> episcope (pastoral oversight), support and reconciliation with regard to
> the internal affairs of a province other than his own for the sake of
> maintaining communion with the said province and between the said
> province and the rest of the Anglican Communion.
>
> 4. In its deliberations, to take due account of the work already
> undertaken on issues of communion by the Lambeth Conferences of 1988 and
> 1998, as well as the views expressed by the Primates of the Anglican
> Communion in the communiqués and pastoral letters arising from their
> meetings since 2000.
>
>
> The members of the Commission are:
>
> * Archbishop Robin Eames, Primate of All Ireland, Chairman,
> * The Revd Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, Director of Faith, Worship and
> Ministry, the Anglican Church of Canada,
> * Bishop David Beetge, Dean of the Church of the Province of Southern
> Africa,
> * Professor Norman Doe, Director of the Centre for Law and Religion,
> Cardiff University, Wales,
> * Bishop Mark Dyer, Director of Spiritual Formation, Virginia
> Theological Seminary, USA,
> * Archbishop Drexel Gomez, Primate of the West Indies,
> * Archbishop Josiah Iduwo-Fearon, Archbishop of Kaduna, the Anglican
> Church of Nigeria,
> * The Revd Dorothy Lau, Director of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare
> Council,
> * Ms Anne McGavin, Advocate, formerly Legal Adviser to the College of
> Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church,
> * Archbishop Bernard Malango, Primate of Central Africa,
> * Dr Esther Mombo, Academic Dean of St Paul's United Theological
> Seminary, Limuru, Kenya,
> * Archbishop Barry Morgan, Primate of Wales,
> * Chancellor Rubie Nottage, Chancellor of the West Indies,
> * Bishop John Paterson, Primate of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia,
> and Chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council,
> * Dr Jenny Te Paa,  Principal of College of Saint John the Evangelist,
> Auckland, New Zealand,
> * Bishop James Terom, Moderator, the Church of North India,
> * Bishop N Thomas Wright, Bishop of Durham, the Church of England.
>
> The Revd Canon John Rees, Legal Adviser to the Anglican Consultative
> Council, will act as Legal Consultant to the Commission.
>
> The Revd Canon Gregory Cameron, Director of Ecumenical Affairs and
> Studies, Anglican Communion Office, will act as Secretary to the
> Commission.
>
>
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