Consolidated APO Request Goes to Canterbury
08/08/2006

A single request for alternate primatial oversight consolidating the requests of the dioceses of Fort Worth, San Joaquin, Central Florida, South Carolina, Dallas, Pittsburgh and Springfield has been forwarded to the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Living Church has learned.

Overseen by the Bishop of Dallas, the Rt. Rev. James M. Stanton, the 14-page petition for relief was sent to Lambeth Palace last month after Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams requested the dioceses to consolidate their requests for assistance.

In his July 31 address to the third annual council meeting of the Anglican Communion Network, the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh, noted that after the individual requests had been filed with Canterbury, the “bishops of the seven dioceses worked together on a submission to Lambeth Palace which unified and developed the original requests.” the rest at The Living Church