From ELO- (yep that's me)
Towards the end of his nearly 10-minute statement, Kearon spoke about so-called "cross-border interventions" in which a bishop representing one province or diocese acts in another without permission. "Each instrument of communion, including the Primates Meeting, has condemned them and asked for them to cease, but we are a voluntary communion and have no [ability] to act against a province," he said.
After his statement, members of the council's Committee on World Mission and Anderson posed six questions to Kearon that reflected a compilation of questions the committee had received from council members. In addition, council member Diocese of Ohio Bishop Mark Hollingsworth asked Kearon about interventions in his diocese by a bishop of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.
Kearon told one of the questioners, Diocese of Pittsburgh council member Jim Simons, that Williams had asked Southern Cone Archbishop Gregory Venables for "a clarification of the current state of interventions into other provinces. There's a deadline for his response and there's a deadline in that letter to end the interventions."
Simons told ENS after the conversation with Kearon that "it is a great encouragement to me that the Archbishop of Canterbury recognizes that the Province of the Southern Cone is in violation of the Windsor Report moratoria on incursions, and has written the archbishop of that province asking for clarity about the extent of these incursions." In 2008, the majority of the Pittsburgh leadership voted to leave the Episcopal Church and join the Southern Cone.
During his remarks, Kearon also said that he has asked whether it "constitutes an intervention and is therefore a breach of the third moratoria" if a communion province has among its bishops one who is exercising ministry in another province without that province's permission.
"That question has not been addressed by any of the instruments of communion so I and the archbishop don't have guidance on that particular question," he said
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http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/79425_123022_ENG_HTM.htm
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