Reformed Churchmen: Donkey-Yawn: CANTUAR Faces Boycott by Anglican Leaders

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We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Monday, March 18, 2013

Donkey-Yawn: CANTUAR Faces Boycott by Anglican Leaders

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=17326

Archbishop Welby faces boycott by Anglican leaders over plans to allow gay clergy to become bishops
Furious archbishops from Africa and Asia planning to snub meeting

New Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby calls for reconciliation
Welby to be formally installed on Thursday

By JONATHAN PETRE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news
March 16, 2013

Snubbed: Traditionalist Anglican leaders are threatening to snub new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby over gay clergy
Archbishop Welby snubbed

Traditionalist Anglican leaders are threatening to snub the new Archbishop of Canterbury in a furious row over gay clergy.

Conservative archbishops from Africa and Asia, who are among Anglicanism's most senior clerics, are planning to boycott a meeting called by Archbishop Justin Welby that is scheduled to take place after his enthronement this week.

The leaders are flying in for Archbishop Welby's formal installation service in Canterbury Cathedral on Thursday.

Archbishop Welby, the nominal head of the 70 million members of the worldwide Anglican Church, called the behind-the-scenes meeting in an effort to patch up divisions.

He is so concerned he has appointed the Church's first 'director of reconciliation', Canon David Porter of Coventry Cathedral, to broker a peace.

But the conservative primates are so furious with Church of England plans to allow gay clergy in civil partnerships to become bishops that they are expected to boycott the gathering.

They are also unlikely to sit at the same table as their liberal counterpart from the United States, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who has already consecrated openly gay bishops.

According to leaked documents seen by The Mail on Sunday, at least three senior African archbishops have privately urged conservative colleagues to shun the gathering.

In the documents, the Primate of Kenya, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, said he recommended that 'we show our commitment to the Anglican Communion by being present for the service at Canterbury Cathedral . . . but do not participate in the "collegial time" being proposed by Archbishop Welby'.

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