Archbishop David Crawley, the acting primate, has written formal letters of protest to the primates of Central Africa, Congo, Rwanda and Southeast Asia saying their offer of "temporary adequate episcopal oversight" to New...
Category: April 2004, Sexuality debate, Anglican Communion

The Archbishop of Canterbury's commission on communion has called for a ceasefire among Anglicans at odds over the issue of same-sex blessings in Canada and the ordination of a gay bishop in the United States, saying it is...
Category: April 2004, Anglican Communion, Sexuality debate
The Anglican Church in Central America (Iglesia Anglicana de la Region Central America, or IARCA) is the latest province to divide over the consecration of New Hampshire bishop Gene Robinson last November. The Episcopal...
Category: April 2004, Anglican Communion, Sexuality debate
The wheels are falling off the printed version of the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, but the Anglican Communion office in London is hoping that a new electronic version of the world prayer calendar will avoid embarrassing errors. ...
Category: March 2004, Anglican Communion

Members of the Inter-Anglican Commission on Mission and Evangelism recently issued a communique stating their commitment to "living together in mission" despite serious disagreements over the issue of same-sex blessings and the...
Category: February 2004, Anglican Communion, Canada, Sexuality debate
The 16-member commission formed last October by the Archbishop of Canterbury to report on "the nature, extent and consequences of impaired communion" in the Anglican Communion, meets for the first time this month to map out plans...
Category: February 2004, Anglican Communion, Canada, Sexuality debate
The official dialogue between Roman Catholics and Anglicans has hit a speed bump, although both sides insist that they are committed to further conversations in their common search for Christian unity. A meeting of the...
Category: February 2004, Anglican Communion, ECUSA, Sexuality debate
The bishops of Congo, West Africa, are the latest to voice their condemnation of the consecration in New Hampshire of Bishop Gene Robinson and to dissociate themselves from dioceses and parishes "involved in homosexuality." ...
Category: February 2004, Anglican Communion, ECUSA, Sexuality debate

Canon M. Philip Poole of Trinity church, Aurora, Ont., was recently elected president of the international Compass Rose Society, the first Canadian Anglican to sit in that post. The society, which was established to provide...
Category: January 2004, Canada, Anglican Communion
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, announced the members and terms of reference of a commission that will review recent events in the Anglican Communion concerning same-sex relationships and make recommendations on the...
Category: December 2003, Anglican Communion, Sexuality debate