Archbishop Venables: Primates Coalition Will Support Second U.S. Jurisdiction
12/05/2006

In a message to the Dec. 1-2 convention in the Diocese of San Joaquin, the Primate of the Southern Cone assured clergy and lay delegates that the Global South primates’ coalition will support pleas for a second Anglican jurisdiction in the United States—one independent of The Episcopal Church.

“Although you might need to separate from an agenda that long ago separated from the plan of God for the Christian Church, at no time will you have to separate from the Anglican Communion,” Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables said in a taped message shown at St. James’ Cathedral, Fresno, during a service at the start of convention.

In a 17 minute address from his office in Buenos Aires, Bishop Venables outlined the history of the disputes over doctrine and discipline within the Anglican Communion, citing the actions of the General Convention in sparking the current controversy. However, the current division ran deeper, he said, and displayed “two ways of defining Christianity.”

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