Conservative Primates Council elects new leadership, criticizes Episcopal Church

From Episcopal Life Online-

A group of conservative Anglican primates, meeting April 5-9 in Bermuda, has criticized the Episcopal Church for the election of a partnered lesbian as a suffragan bishop in Los Angeles and named new leadership for the Global Anglican Future Conference/Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans Primates Council.
The council was formed out of the controversial Global Anglican Future Conference that was held in Jerusalem during June 2008, one month prior to the Lambeth Conference of bishops. Many of the bishops attending GAFCON chose to boycott the Lambeth Conference.

A communiqué issued at the conclusion of the Bermuda meeting described the FCA as "a movement defined by theology that delivers spiritual and practical outcomes to faithful Anglican Christians around the world."

Archbishop Gregory Venables of the Argentina-based Province of the Southern Cone will serve as council chairman, succeeding retired Church of Nigeria Archbishop Peter Akinola. Archbishops Emmanuel Kolini of Rwanda and Eliud Wabukala of Kenya will serve as vice chairmen. Archbishop Peter Jensen of the Diocese of Sydney, in the Anglican Church of Australia, will continue as general secretary.

Also present at the Bermuda meeting were the primates of Nigeria, Tanzania and West Africa, and deposed Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan, who in 2009 was elected as archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America. The ACNA is a conservative entity made up primarily of individuals and groups that have left the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada, as well as those that have never been members of those two provinces.

Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda was represented at the meeting by Bishop Nathan Kyamanywa of Bunyoro-Kitara.

Since its formation, the GAFCON/FCA Primates Council has been critical of recent developments in the Episcopal Church concerning human sexuality issues and litigation to retain property of which breakaway Episcopalians have attempted to take ownership. Venables has offered oversight to conservative members of parishes and dioceses breaking away from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.

The full text of the Bermuda communiqué is available here.

http://www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/blog/comments/communique_from_the_primates_council_of_gafcon_fca

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http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_121452_ENG_HTM.htm