Anglican meeting to go ahead despite boycott

From Ireland-

There are no plans to cancel the meeting of Anglican Church leaders in Dublin this month, despite a boycott by up to a quarter of the primates, a senior Anglican has confirmed.

Up to ten of the leaders of the Anglican Communion’s 38 provinces have said they won’t attend the biennial meeting because of the presence of Katharine Jefferts-Schori, the presiding bishop of the Episcopalian Church of the United States and a supporter of gay bishops and same-sex marriage.

The Church of England newspaper had reported that the head of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, was considering scrapping the event because of the proposed boycott.

But a Church spokesman said the story was inaccurate and that the secretary-general of the communion, Canon Kenneth Kearon, was adamant that there were never any plans to cancel the meeting.

The newspaper reported that Williams had suggested that, given the ‘‘number of difficult conversations’’ he’d had with some primates and the boycott threat, separate group sessions might be more appropriate.

But Kearon - a member of the Church of Ireland - told The Sunday Business Post: ‘‘The meeting will definitely go ahead.

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