From The Living Church-
So far the proposed disciplines within the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Pentecost letter have affected only the Episcopal Church, but the letter also has raised questions for the Anglican Church of Canada and the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone.
The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion has informed two representatives of the Episcopal Church that they will no longer serve as members of the Anglican–Orthodox Theological Dialogue. Those representatives are the Rev. Thomas Ferguson, the Episcopal Church’s interim deputy for ecumenical and interreligious relations, and the Rt. Rev. William O. Gregg, assistant bishop of North Carolina.
Episcopal News Service reported that the decision affects the Episcopal Church’s involvement in all ecumenical dialogues involving the Anglican Communion.
The archbishop’s proposal also has affected the Rt. Rev. C. Franklin Brookhart, Bishop of Montana, who was a member of the Anglican–Methodist International Commission for Unity in Mission, and the Very Rev. William H. Petersen, professor of ecclesiastical and ecumenical history at Bexley Hall, who was a member of the Anglican–Lutheran International Commission.
“Last Thursday I sent letters to members of the Inter Anglican ecumenical dialogues who are from the Episcopal Church informing them that their membership of these dialogues has been discontinued,” the Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon wrote in a statement dated June 7. “In doing so I want to emphasize again as I did in those letters the exceptional service of each and every person to that important work and to acknowledge without exception the enormous contribution each person has made.”
More here-
http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2010/6/7/letter-affects-three-episcopal-leaders
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