From the London Times-A senior Anglican Archbishop from the UK has condemned plans by conservative Anglicans to form a new province in the US.
The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, said he would oppose a new province “with every fibre of my being.”
He warned that if the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion allow traditionalists to set up a new province to exist as a parallel jurisdiction to the US Episcopal Church, no province would be safe and the worldwide Anglican Church would splinter into many fragments.
Dr Morgan is one of 39 Anglican Primates who will attend next week’s meeting of the heads of 38 provinces worldwide in Alexandria, Egypt.
The Archbishops are to debate the damaging effects of the row over homosexuality at the meeting and discuss how to get their churches back on track.
Although it is not on the official agenda, it is understood that one of the conservative Primates will present the draft canons and constitutions of a new traditionalist province in the US, headed by the deposed Bishop of Pittsburgh, Bob Duncan.
In an interview with The Times, Dr Morgan said the concept of a new province in the US “makes no ecclesiological or theological sense.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5606663.ece
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