Two Archbishops Express Dismay

From The Living Church-

Two archbishops have written to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the eve of the fourth Global South Encounter, expressing their dismay about the Anglican Communion.

The publicly issued letters are from the Most Rev. Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, and the Most Rev. Ian Ernest, Bishop of Mauritius and Archbishop of the Province of the Indian Ocean.

Both leaders ask Archbishop Rowan Williams to call an emergency meeting of Anglican primates, with the exception of the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church and the Most Rev. Frederick James Hiltz of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Both primates object to the Episcopal Church’s plan to consecrate the Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool, who is in a long-term same-sex relationship, as a bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Los Angeles.

Both archbishops express their support of the Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer Hanna Anis, President Bishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East and Bishop in Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa, who wrote Archbishop Williams about similar concerns on Jan. 30.

“Your Grace, I have urged you in the past, and I will urge you again,” Archbishop Orombi wrote on April 9. “There is an urgent need for a meeting of the Primates to continue sorting out the crisis that is before us, especially given the upcoming consecration of a lesbian as bishop in America.”

“I feel that I should express the heartfelt feelings of the people of God who are extremely distressed at the disrespectful and high-handed manner in which the TEC continues to dismiss the concerns of the rest of the Communion and to undermine the decisions taken by the Primates,” Archbishop Ernest wrote on April 12.

Both primates expressed their sense that leaders from the Global South receive different treatment than their counterparts.

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