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- Anglican Communion. Lambeth Commission
ACNS : Anglican Communion News Service : Anglican Communion Commission announced
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article31026
- Author
- Davies, Matthew
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2004 New Year (2003 / 2004)
- Author
- Davies, Matthew
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2004 New Year (2003 / 2004)
- Issue
- 112
- Page
- 46
- Notes
- The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has announced the membership and terms of reference for a Commission "to look at life in the Anglican Communion in the light of recent events". Members are to be appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Commission will be chaired by the Most Rev. Robin Eames, Archbishop of Armagh and Senior Primate of the Communion. "It will take particular account of the decision to authorise a service for use in connection with same sex unions in the Diocese of New Westminster, Canada, and the expected Consecration of the Revd Canon V. Gene Robinson as Bishop Co-adjutor of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church (U.S.A.) on Sunday, November 2nd [2003]." The Commission will report by October 2004 prior to the meetings of the Primates and Anglican Consultative Council.
- Subjects
- Anglican Communion. Lambeth Commission
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Same sex unions - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
Anglican bishops unanimously commend Windsor Report for study by the church
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official8833
- Date
- 2004 November 5
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Record Type
- Press release
- Text
- TORONTO, Nov. 5, 2004
- Canadian Anglican bishops meeting this week in Saskatoon, Sask., have unanimously declared the Windsor Report of the Lambeth Commission on unity in the Anglican Communion to be an important document worthy of study by the whole church.
- Without dissent, the bishops approved a motion that calls on Canadian Anglicans to respond to the report in time for a meeting of the Primates of the Communion that will be held in Belfast next February [2005].
- The bishops also voted unanimously to ask the Canadian Primate, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, to write a pastoral letter to the Canadian Church asking Anglicans to consider the report and send their responses to him.
- The Lambeth Commission was created by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams more than a year ago to consider how the world-wide Anglican Communion can preserve its unity in the face of controversies around issues such as the ordination of a gay bishop in the United States and the blessing of same-sex unions in a Canadian diocese.
- The commission under the chairmanship of Archbishop Robin Eames of Armagh, submitted its report last month. The commission conducted an exhaustive study of Anglican unity and the stresses it faces and made several recommendations including issuing a call for "expressions of regret" on the part of some bishops and churches whose actions have distressed others in the communion. Bishops who have intervened in the affairs of dioceses other than their own are also asked to express regret and refrain from such interventions in the future.
- The report also includes a model "covenant" to more closely bind provinces of the Anglican Communion.
- Anglican Primates from around the world are to bring their churches' responses to the Belfast meeting, and the Canadian Church has set up a process to gather those responses.
- On another matter, the bishops also approved a document entitled "Shared Episcopal Oversight" which provides a model through which parishes and congregations that dissent from a decision on the blessing of same-sex unions made by their dioceses can be placed, temporarily, under the care of a bishop from outside the diocese.
- The model described in "Shared Episcopal Oversight" also provides for a process of reconciliation where agreement between certain parishes or congregations and the diocese's bishop cannot be reached. In both cases, the diocesan bishop is involved in the process.
- The document says that "shared Episcopal ministry" is based on a spirit of reconciliation, cooperation and good will.
- The meeting of Anglican bishops is held twice a year and brings together bishops from each of the Canadian Anglican church's 30 dioceses from across the country.
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- For more information, please contact: Vianney (Sam) Carriere, Director of Communications, 416-924-9199 ext. 306; 416-540-3653 (Cell); scarriere@national.anglican.ca OR Paul Feheley, Principal Secretary to the Primate, 416-924-9199 ext. 277, pfeheley@national.anglican.ca
- Subjects
- Anglican Communion. Lambeth Commission
- Windsor Report
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Same sex unions - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Same sex unions - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Alternative episcopal oversight - Anglican Church of Canada
- Episcopacy - Anglican Church of Canada
- Episcopacy - Anglican Communion
- Shared Episcopal Ministry
- Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. House of Bishops
Anglican Primate to hold news conference on Eames Report today
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official8831
- Date
- 2004 October 18
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Record Type
- Press release
- Text
- [TORONTO, October 18, 2004]
- Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada will hold a news conference today, Monday Oct. 18 [2004], at 1:30 p.m., at which he will make a statement on the report of the Lambeth Commission on Communion (Eames Report) and answer questions. Also attending will be the Rev. Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, who was a member of the Commission.
- The News Conference will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the Boardroom of the Anglican National Offices, 80 Hayden Street, Toronto, Ont.
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- For more information, please contact: Vianney (Sam) Carriere, Director of Communications, 416-924-9199 ext. 306; 416-540-3653 (Cell); scarriere@national.anglican.ca OR Paul Feheley, Principal Secretary to the Primate, 416-924-9199 ext. 277, pfeheley@national.anglican.ca
- Subjects
- Church and the press - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Communion. Lambeth Commission
- Windsor Report
Church awaits critical commission report
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article31569
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2004 October
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2004 October
- Volume
- 130
- Issue
- 8
- Page
- 1,14
- Notes
- The Lambeth Commission is scheduled to release its report on 18 October 2004. Article includes some comments from Commission member Alyson Barnett-Cowan. Ellie Johnson also comments on the meeting of Anglican Provincial Secretaries held in Johannesburg from 26 August to 2 September 2004.
- Subjects
- Anglican Communion. Lambeth Commission
- Barnett-Cowan, Alyson (Alyson Mary), 1949-
- Johnson, Ellie (Eleanor Spence), 1942-2022
- Anglican Communion - Provincial Secretaries - Congresses
- Anglican Provincial Secretaries Conference (5th : 2004 : Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Anglican Communion - Parties and movements
Commission calls for ceasefire
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article31884
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2004 April
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2004 April
- Volume
- 130
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 17
- Notes
- The members of the Lambeth Commission met for the first time in 9-13 February 2004. Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan is the only Canadian member.
- Subjects
- Anglican Communion. Lambeth Commission
- Same sex unions - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Barnett-Cowan, Alyson (Alyson Mary), 1949-
Commission will soon wrap up its work
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article31504
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2004 September
- Volume
- 130
- Issue
- 7
- Page
- 1,14
- Notes
- Reports on the June meeting of the Lambeth Commission in Hendersonville, N.C. and differing views in the Communion.
- Subjects
- Anglican Communion. Lambeth Commission
- Eames, Robin (Robert Henry Alexander), 1937-
- Griswold, Frank T. (Frank Tracy), 1937-2023
- Duncan, Robert (Robert William), 1948-
The Diocese of New Westminster
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official8427
- Date
- 2003 October 27-31
- Source
- House of Bishops. Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution 03-10-08
- Date
- 2003 October 27-31
- Source
- House of Bishops. Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution 03-10-08
- Mover
- Bishop Hiltz
- Seconder
- Archbishop Finlay
- Text
- "That this House of Bishops acknowledges with gratitude the establishment of the commission called for by the Primates in their statement of October 16, 2003, welcomes the announcement of the members appointed, and commits itself to uphold them prayerfully in the task they have accepted." CARRIED Res. #HB-03-10-08
The Lambeth Commission : A Report
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article32066
- Author
- Cameron, Gregory (Gregory Kenneth), 1959-
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2004 Michaelmas
- 2004 Advent
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2004 Michaelmas
- 2004 Advent
- Issue
- 115
- 116
- Page
- 50-51
- Notes
- A review of the history, mandate and working of the Lambeth Commission which was established by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, following the meeting of the Primates of the Anglican Communion in Lambeth Palace, London, in October 2003. "The primates made it quite clear that the issue they wanted addressed by the Commission centred on questions of communion not sex: given the standard of teaching, adopted on human sexuality at the Lambeth Conference 1998, how could the Communion maintain the `highest degree of communion possible' in the face of the consecration of a bishop [Gene Robinson of New Hampshire] whose lifestyle challenged that teaching. The situation in New Westminster, which up to that point had occupied much time in the councils of the Communion, was added to its work, but very much in the shadow of this new development". The commission was chaired by Archbishop Robin Eames and held three plenary residential meetings including one at St. George's College in Windsor, England, and one at the Kanuga Conference Center in North Carolina.
- Also includes inset article/section entitled: The Windsor Report 2004 : The Report of the Lambeth Commission on Communion : A Summary Guide.
- Subjects
- Anglican Communion. Lambeth Commission
- Anglican Communion - Government
- Anglican Communion - Structure
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Windsor Report
Lambeth Commission Report (Presentation & Clarification)
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official9053
- Date
- 2004 October 31 - November 4
- Source
- House of Bishops. Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution 04-10-07
- Date
- 2004 October 31 - November 4
- Source
- House of Bishops. Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution 04-10-07
- Mover
- Bishop Johnson
- Seconder
- Bishop Burton
- Prologue
- Archbishop Hutchison reminded the House that the task for the first session on the Windsor Report was to review the document. The presenters for the sessions were: Bishop Tottenham, Bishop Ferris, Bishop Moxley and Bishop Johnson.
- Bishop Tottenham reviewed Section A of the report ('The Purposes & Benefits of Communion'). Bishop Ferris reviewed Section B ('Fundamental Principles') of the report. Bishop Moxley reviewed Section C ('Our Future Life Together'). Bishop Johnson reviewed Section D ('The Maintenance of Communion'). Each of the bishops ran through the main points of the sections they were reviewing.
- Archbishop Hutchison noted that the covenant was listed as an appendix. He requested that the bishops not give the covenant the same weight as the report.
- Archdeacon Boyles reported that he had just returned from the meeting of the ECUSA Executive Council which had also spent time discussing the Windsor Report.
- The General Secretary informed the House of Bishops that the General Synod was collecting responses to the Windsor Report for Archbishop Hutchison to take with him to the Anglican Communion Primates' Meeting in Northern Ireland in February 2005. A Windsor Report Response Task Force has been established to collect responses from the Canadian Church. The task force will meet at the end of January [2005].
- Membership of the Response Task Force includes: Dr. Ellie Johnson (chair), Bishop Michael Bedford-Jones, Bishop Peter Coffin, Ms. Cynthia Haines, the Rev. Canon Linda Nicholls, and two bishops. The House of Bishops was asked to choose two representatives for the Task Force. Bishop Johnson and Bishop Cowan were selected.
- The General Secretary said the task for the day was to answer questions in small groups:
- - What was your reaction to the Windsor Report ?
- - What suggestions do you have to engage diocese[s] and others in responding to the report ?
- The bishops reported back and then held a discussion in plenary.
- Text
- "Be it resolved that this House of Bishops receive the Windsor Report with gratitude to the Lambeth Commission, recognizes its importance, and commends it to the Church for study." CARRIED Res.#HB 04-10-07
- Subjects
- Anglican Communion. Lambeth Commission
- Windsor Report
- Anglican Church of Canada. Windsor Report Response Group - Membership
Lambeth Commission tackles tensions in the Church
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article31300
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2004 Easter
- Issue
- 113
- Page
- 36
- Notes
- The members of the Lambeth Commission met for the first time at St. George's House, Windsor, England from 9-13 February 2004. The Commission was established following the Primates' Meeting at Lambeth Palace, London, in October 2003. The commission, which is due to report to the Archbishop of Canterbury in September 2004, has organized into small working groups to study and reflect on five key topics: "Issues of process in the Anglican Communion; The nature and purposes of Communion; The obligations of Communion Authority; The role of the instruments of unity in preserving fellowship". The Commission "expressed its sadness over the `strident language' being used in the debate now besetting the Anglican Communion over the issues of openly gay clergy and same sex unions". "The commission is saddened that tensions within the Communion, exacerbated by the use of strident language, have continued to rise in recent months, (and) requests all members of the Anglican Communion to refrain from any precipitate action, or legal proceedings, which would further harm `the bonds of communion' in the period whilst it completes it work. Mission and ministry, including prayer for unity, remain the priorities".
- A complete list of the Commission's members is published here. It includes the Rev. Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, Anglican Church of Canada. The text of presentations to the Commission and the statement from the Commission can be found on its web site at: www.anglicancommunion.org/ecumenical/commissions/lambeth.index.cfm
- Subjects
- Anglican Communion. Lambeth Commission
- Authority - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion