April 1, 2007 Primates worship at former slave market

Primates of the Anglican Communion gathered on Feb. 18 for a eucharist at a cathedral built atop a former slave market in Zanzibar, with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams praying for “forgiveness for the past, mercy for the present, and humility for the future.”

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April 1, 2007 Primates push U.S. on sexuality

Primates of the Anglican Communion have given the U.S. Episcopal Church until Sept. 30 to “make an unequivocal common covenant” that its bishops will bar same-sex blessings in their churches and that it would not consecrate another gay bishop “unless some new consensus on this matter emerges” across the Anglican world.

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March 1, 2007 ‘There isn’t one Anglican church,’ says U.S. academic

Nine months ago, the Episcopal Church met in convention in a mild-mannered city, Columbus, Ohio. What transpired was anything but mild-mannered and the emotional temperature since has steadily risen, both within a vocal minority of Episcopal churches in the United States and several countries of the global Anglican Communion.

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March 1, 2007 Official’s e-mail leaked

An e-mail criticizing the Archbishop of Canterbury proved to be an embarrassment in late January for the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Canon Kenneth Kearon. The Church Times reported that Mr. Kearon wrote to U.S....

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March 1, 2007 Agenda promises tense primates’ meeting

Preparations for what has become an annual meeting of the Anglican Communion’s senior bishops, or primates, heated up in January with news that three U.S. bishops – in addition to Presiding Bishop (primate) Katharine Jefferts...

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March 1, 2007 Canterbury comes to Canada

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, will make his first visit to Canada as Archbishop of Canterbury with a visit to the April meeting of the Canadian house of bishops in Niagara Falls, Ont.

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February 23, 2007 Archbishop Hutchison ‘discouraged’ by primates’ communiqué

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said that he had been “profoundly discouraged” by the communiqué issued by Anglican leaders warning the U.S. church of consequences if it did not abandon its liberal stance on sexuality, and had found it “tempting” not to sign it.

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February 22, 2007 Canadian Anglicans weigh in on primates' warning to U.S. church

The Canadian church was hardly mentioned in the communiqué that ended the Feb 15-19 meeting of Anglican primates in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but the church’s General Synod, will wrestle with questions of sexuality in June and that fact was much on the minds of Canadian observers.

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February 21, 2007 Dispute over homosexuality not over yet, says Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has said that the creation of a pastoral council to provide oversight to dissenting churches and congregations in the U.S. is “an interim solution that will certainly fall very far short of resolving all the disputes that are before us” but was nonetheless one that would “provide a way of moving forward with integrity.”

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February 20, 2007 Archbishop Hutchison says church must look 'seriously' at primates’ request

The Anglican primates’ directive for the U.S. church to unequivocally bar same-sex blessings and gay bishops is something that the Canadian church “will have to look at seriously,” according to Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

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