30 September 2014 A.D. Irish Times: News Spreads of Cancelled Lambeth 2018
30
September 2014 A.D. Irish
Times: News Spreads of Cancelled Lambeth 2018
McGarry, Patsy. “Lambeth Conference 2018 cancelled in ongoing
gay clergy issue.” Irish Times. 30 Sept
2014. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/lambeth-conference-2018-cancelled-in-ongoing-gay-clergy-issue-1.1947133?fb_action_ids=10205033583387703&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_ref=.VCtEd8wy0N4.like Accessed 30
Sept 2014
Lambeth Conference 2018
cancelled in ongoing gay clergy issue
Over a third of Anglican dioceses worldwide boycotted 2008 Conference on same issue
Presiding
bishop of the Episcopal Church in the US, Most Rev Dr Katharine Jefferts
Schori: said the next Lambeth Conference “needs to be preceded by a primates
meeting at which a vast majority of primates are present”. Photograph: Dara Mac
Dónaill/The Irish Times
First published:
Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 20:44
The worldwide Anglican Communion’s next Lambeth Conference, scheduled for
2018, has been cancelled for the first time in its history.
A gathering of Anglican bishops from around the world which takes place
once a decade, the cancellation, which is indefinite, is due to ongoing
division over the gay clergy issue.
The 2008 conference was marred by a significant boycott over the same
issue.
According to the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the US, Most
Rev Katharine
Jefferts Schori, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin
Welby and titular head of Anglicans worldwide was “very clear
that he is not going to call a Lambeth until he is reasonably certain that the
vast majority of bishops would attend”.
Primates
She
said the next Lambeth Conference “needs to be preceded by a primates meeting at
which a vast majority of primates are present” and that “as he continues his
visits around the [Anglican] communion to those primates it’s unlikely that he
will call such a meeting at all until at least a year from now or probably 18
months from now. Therefore I think we are looking at 2019, more likely 2020, before
a Lambeth Conference.”
She also said the format of the next Lambeth Conference will be different
from 2008 with the spouses’ conference eliminated “because of scale issues and
regional contextual issues.
Bishops’ spouses fill very different roles in different parts of the
communion and the feedback from the last one was that it did not serve the
spouses particularly well,” she said.
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