Anglican Head to Visit Vatican for Unity Celebration

From Christian Post-

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams will join in the anniversary celebration of a unity council at the Vatican next week. The visit follows the resignations of five Anglican bishops who converted to the Roman Catholic Church.

Williams, the spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide, will visit the Vatican on Nov. 17 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, according to a news release from the Vatican press office Wednesday. The council aims, in part, to develop dialogue and collaboration with the other churches and world communions.

Metropolitan John Zizioulas of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Archbishop Kurt Koch, president of the council, will also attend.

Earlier this week, it was confirmed that five bishops would defect from the Anglican Communion to the Catholic Church. On Monday, Williams accepted "with regret" the resignations of the Church of England bishops who left over the ordination of women, among other things.

The bishops issued a statement explaining their reasons for leaving the Anglican body: "[P]articularly we have been distressed by developments in Faith and Order in Anglicanism which we believe to be incompatible with the historic vocation of Anglicanism and the tradition of the Church for nearly two thousand years."

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