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Indigenous Anglicans move towards self-determination

Indigenous Anglicans move towards self-determination

Canadian indigenous Anglicans' desire to form a self-determining community within the church took a step forward last summer when the 5th Sacred Circle approved a declaration calling for a native national bishop to be elected with a year.

01 December 2005

Residential schools agreement is 'good news' for everyone

Residential schools agreement is 'good news' for everyone

The announcement of a comprehensive agreement on native residential schools issues is good news for the Anglican Church and good news for Canada's indigenous people, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada says. Archbishop Hutchison hailed Ottawa's promise of generous compensation for people who attended the Indian Residential Schools and said the Anglican church remains committed to its work in healing and reconciliation with indigenous people.

25 November 2005

ACC chairman Bishop John Paterson speaks in Canada

ACC chairman Bishop John Paterson speaks in Canada

Bishop Paterson addressed the Council of General Synod during a two-day visit as the council gathered in Mississauga, Ont, Nov 17-20 as well as hearing presentations to CoGS by Canadians who attended the Anglican Consultative Council's meeting in Nottingham this summer

25 November 2005

Bishop Buckle elected Metropolitan of B.C. and the Yukon

Bishop Buckle elected Metropolitan of B.C. and the Yukon

November 5, 2005 - Electors in the ecclesiastical (church) province of British Columbia and the Yukon, meeting on Nov. 4 in Richmond, British Columbia, near Vancouver, chose Bishop Terrence Buckle of the diocese of the Yukon as metropolitan, or provincial archbishop.

08 November 2005

Korea's Anglicans welcome ECUSA Presiding Bishop

Korea's Anglicans welcome ECUSA Presiding Bishop

Peaceful reunification on the Korean peninsula - achieved diplomatically without the threat of a U.S. preemptive military strike - is a shared priority of the region's Anglican leaders and Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, who conferred in Seoul October 23-26.

28 October 2005

Archbishop Gomez: Focus on Haitian-Bahamian Relationships at Provincial Synod

Archbishop Gomez: Focus on Haitian-Bahamian Relationships at Provincial Synod

At the opening of the week-long Synod of the Diocese of The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands, Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies and Diocesan Bishop, His Grace Drexel Gomez said the Church must play an integral role in awareness building

28 October 2005

New Bishop for the Diocese of Belize

New Bishop for the Diocese of Belize

The Standing Committee of the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Belize has received with pleasure the news of the appointment of the Rev. Canon Philip Wright to be the 14th Bishop of the Diocese of Belize

28 October 2005

Latin American theological group: Panama Declaration

Latin American theological group: Panama Declaration

We, the Latin-American and Caribbean bishops, gathered in the context of the Anglican Theological Conference, proclaim our solidarity and make public our desire for unity in Christ who invites us to participate and seek for the perfect unity in our Lord, Jesus Christ

21 October 2005

Letter from the Archbishop of the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil to the Primate of the Souther

Letter from the Archbishop of the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil to the Primate of the Souther

I am deeply disappointed by your letter in which you recognised and take under your supervision the deposed bishop and a group of deposed clergy that once belonged to the Diocese of Recife.

20 October 2005

A vision seen, a call obeyed

A vision seen, a call obeyed

Under sunny German skies, delegates from parishes and missions of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe met October 12-16, 2005, for their Annual Convention at the Dominikanerkloster, a Christian conference center in downtown Frankfurt. 

18 October 2005