Anglican Church split. (homosexuality, America, doctrine, churches, bless)

[Scott1]

Anglican Church split. The Anglican Nigerian Church has redefined itself to exclude any ecclesial loyalty to Canterbury. All references to “communion with the See of Canterbury” are now deleted; instead, the Church’s constitution says that it is “in communion with all Anglican Churches, Dioceses and Provinces that hold and maintain the Historic Faith, Doctrine, Sacrament and Discipline of the one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church”.

The change comes before a meeting in Alexandria of the “Southern” provinces of the Communion which might see the emergence of the germ of a new Communion, based in Africa, and founded on the exclusion of provinces which have embraced or tolerated homosexuality, including the Church of England. The meeting, beginning on 23 October, will be chaired by the formidable Primate of Nigeria, the Most Revd Peter Akinola. At a press conference in New York last week, Greg Venables, the Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone (as Anglican ecclesiology calls Latin America), heard Archbishop Akinola insist: “Let there be no illusions. The communion is broken and fragmented. The communion will break.”


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[Terrywoodenpic]

Originally Posted by Scott1

Anglican Church split. The Anglican Nigerian Church has redefined itself to exclude any ecclesial loyalty to Canterbury. All references to “communion with the See of Canterbury” are now deleted; instead, the Church’s constitution says that it is “in communion with all Anglican Churches, Dioceses and Provinces that hold and maintain the Historic Faith, Doctrine, Sacrament and Discipline of the one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church”.

The change comes before a meeting in Alexandria of the “Southern” provinces of the Communion which might see the emergence of the germ of a new Communion, based in Africa, and founded on the exclusion of provinces which have embraced or tolerated homosexuality, including the Church of England. The meeting, beginning on 23 October, will be chaired by the formidable Primate of Nigeria, the Most Revd Peter Akinola. At a press conference in New York last week, Greg Venables, the Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone (as Anglican ecclesiology calls Latin America), heard Archbishop Akinola insist: “Let there be no illusions. The communion is broken and fragmented. The communion will break.”


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Unfortunately this is not for the first time, there are a huge number of Anglican Churches out side the Communion. I am not sure who they will end up in Communion with, as some of the previous breakaways are even less to their liking.
Though the African Anglican Churches as a whole are far to the right in sexual matters.

Terry

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Blessed are those who bring peace, they shall be children of God

[Terrywoodenpic]

Anglican Churches not in the Communion

I dont know how To make a link to it, but the above is the heading of a thread I gave listing all the Churches linked to, but not part of the Canterbury Anglican Communion.
They all seem to get on very well out side the Communion.
Anglican Churches not in the Communion LINK

Terry
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Blessed are those who bring peace, they shall be children of God