Archbishop Williams: Existing Communion Links No Longer Effective
12/05/2006

The Archbishop of Canterbury has defended the selection of the Primate of the West Indies, the Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, as chair of the Anglican Covenant drafting committee.

Writing to Episcopal Majority, a church advocacy group, Archbishop Rowan Williams explained that a covenant among the churches of the Anglican Communion was necessary because the “existing historic links and bonds are not proving effective as expressions of mutual accountability.”
On Nov. 9, Episcopal Majority wrote to Archbishop Williams, urging him to remove Archbishop Gomez as chairman of the covenant drafting team because of his public statements on The Episcopal Church. The letter said by signing the Kigali Communique, Archbishop Gomez had shown himself to be a partisan of the Anglican Communion Network, a group they claimed was “dedicated to isolating or even overthrowing the American Episcopal Church.”

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