Presiding Bishop Attends Primates' Orientation Session
02/15/2007

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori attended her first session of meeting of Anglican primates Wednesday in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, participating in an orientation session for the 14 new primates.

Led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the primates “worked through” a paper on the nature and role of a primate, prepared by the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), Archbishop Phillip Aspinall of Australia said. Following Archbishop Williams’ tutorial and introductions, each of the new primates spoke to the “issues and concerns” they faced in their provinces.

Militant Islam, poverty, drought and climate change were among the concerns shared by the new primates, Archbishop Aspinall said. However, “progress” on the Windsor Report “will be at the heart of the primates’ deliberations” in the coming days, deputy General Secretary Canon Gregory Cameron said. the rest