From "Rome Reports"This past March, the head of the Anglican Church, Rowan Williams, said that he would be stepping down as the Archbishop of Canterbury to take a position with Cambridge University.
After his announcement, a search immediately began for the next person to lead the world's 80 million followers of the Church of England.
Father Jonathan Boardman is the archdeacon of Rome's All Saints Church. In the search for a new Anglican Primate, he says that having transparency may be a good thing for the Church.
Fr. Jonathan Boardman
Chaplain, All Saints Church
“Absolutely bizarrely, but some people have said and rather too politically correctly, the position was advertised, but in this age when people want to see that access is open, one might say you can defend it in that way.”
The Primate is elected by a council called the Crown Nominations' Commission, or the CNC. It has 16 members that come from the Church, government, and civil society.
The council will select two names, one with a 'preferred' status to be rubber stamped by Prime Minister David Cameron on behalf of the Queen.
The Anglican community is very divided with many groups being split on how the Church should approach many social issues. The CNC will have to take this into consideration when voting for the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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http://www.romereports.com/palio/anglicans-searching-far-and-wide-to-find-replacement-for-archbishop-of-canterbury-english-7128.html#.T-WlNu0z7jQ
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