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The Abuja Affirmation and the Future: A Series Round Up
6+ hour, 1+ min ago (291+ words) The Rev. Calvin Lane, Ph D is the Editor of Covenant: The Online Journal of The Living Church. The author of two books on the Reformation, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2013. In addition to…...
North India, West Indies Elect Primates
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (29+ words) The primates of the Anglican Communion have two new members: the 16th moderator of the Church of North India and the Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies....
The Abuja Affirmation'An Anglican Communion?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1064+ words) The Living Church The Abuja Affirmation'An Anglican Communion? Please email comments to email protected. Editor's Note: This essay is part of a series on the Abuja Affirmation which will run April 13-17. A Series Round Up with links to all the…...
Here's Who Leads the Global Anglican Communion
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1007+ words) The Global Anglican Communion's governing bodies will consist only of church leaders who are committed to "principled disengagement" from the Anglican Communion's Instruments of Communion, Gafcon officials announced on March 27. But considerable overlap in membership between the Canterbury-focused Anglican Communion…...
Mullally Installed as 106th Archbishop of Canterbury
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (802+ words) It was four seasons in an hour as more than 2, 000 people gathered at Canterbury Cathedral for the installation of the Most Rev. Sarah Mullally as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury on March 25. Archbishop Mullally's legal status had been conferred in January,…...
Quakers Republish Historic Book to Honor Abp. Mullally
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (451+ words) While Sarah Mullaly is the first woman to serve as the Archbishop of Canterbury, she is part of a long lineage of English female preachers that includes Margaret Fell, the cofounder of Quakerism, who wrote the first lengthy defense of…...
England Loses a Beloved Bishop and Appoints Another
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (772+ words) Two recent changes in the Church of England's House of Bishops give a glimpse of the personalities who comprise that body. First was the harrowing loss of Bishop Andrew Watson of Guildford on March 3 at 64. He had led Guildford since…...
The Long Struggle of Arnold Hollis Concludes
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (556+ words) Arnold Hollis of Sandys, Bermuda, died an archdeacon at 92, but it took him 17 years of persistent inquiries to be welcomed as a priest in the nation where he was born. For years he heard that he was not qualified'until after…...
Calvin Robinson Joins Sixth Denomination
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (478+ words) The Rev. Calvin Robinson, the religious internet personality, recently became a cleric in a continuing Anglican denomination founded in 2024: the English Catholic Church in North America. Robinson has been temporary licensed in this denomination since 2025, and was permanently incardinated into…...
GSFA Primates Reaffirm Anglican Communion Ties
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (1021+ words) The primates of the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) reaffirmed their commitment to the Anglican Communion and worked to develop a strategic plan to become "an increasingly effective instrument for the reform of the Communion" at meetings held…...