Covenant Design Team Plans Inaugural Meeting
01/04/2007

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Covenant Design Group is to convene its first meeting Jan. 15-19 in Nassau, Bahamas. A spokesman for the Anglican Consultative Council told The Living Church the names of the 10-member team will be released on Jan. 8, when their participation in the meeting has been confirmed.

However, TLC has learned that in addition to the Design Group’s chairman, Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the West Indies, a second primate, Archbishop John Chew of Southeast Asia, will be part of the team comprised of scholars, bishops and church leaders drawn from the United States, Africa, Britain and Singapore.

The creation of a pan-Anglican Covenant to “give explicit articulation and recognition to the principles of co-operation and interdependence” within the Anglican Communion was among the suggestions of the Windsor Report, published in 2004. A covenant would be “one vital way in which trust and cooperation could be rebuilt between the churches of the Anglican Communion in the wake of recent tensions” the ACC’s joint standing committee stated in April 2006. the rest