Ndungane distances himself from Rwanda conference
September 24, 2006

Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane today distanced himself from a statement issued by other Anglican leaders at a meeting he attended last week in Rwanda. The document, released by the church leaders of Global South, speaks out against Katharine Jefferts Schori, the US Episcopal Church leader’s support for gay clergy and other liberal reforms.

Although he had been in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, for the meeting, Ndungane said he was not consulted on the document. Ndungane said he particularly dissociated his church from proposals to develop alternative church structures in America, and to sideline Schori, who is due to take over as leader of the Episcopal Church in America in November.

She will be the first woman leader in the US Episcopal Church, as the Anglican Church is called in that country. He described parts of it as "not consonant with the position of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa" whose bishops unanimously issued a strong call earlier this month to work for unity within the Anglican Communion. the rest