Anglican Mission, ACNA ‘Clarify’ Their Roles

From The Living Church-

At the request of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, the Anglican Mission in the Americas is seeking a greater distance from the Anglican Church in North America, which it helped found.

The Anglican Mission will ask the ACNA’s provincial council, which meets June 8 and 9, to change its status from jurisdiction to ministry partner. Leaders of both the ACNA and the Anglican Mission said that there was widespread confusion about how the two ministries relate to each other. Both parties said the new arrangement clarifies their structural relationship.

Changing the affiliation “will allow the Anglican Mission to maintain a level of connection to the North American Province, even though the missionary movement will remain under the spiritual and canonical authority of Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini and the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda,” said a communiqué from the Anglican Mission. “It also allows for the Anglican Mission to continue to function as a missionary movement committed to church planting as we have for the last decade.”

A communiqué from the Most Rev. Robert M. Duncan, Archbishop of ACNA, said the Anglican Mission’s request for a different affiliation “came as a result of a January resolution by the Rwandan House of Bishops objecting to the dual membership of Rwanda’s missionary bishops in the North American College of Bishops.”

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