Thursday, November 29, 2007

Conservative Anglicans to establish new Canadian denomination
By Jim Coggins

THE ANGLICAN Network in Canada (ANiC) has followed through on its plans to set up an alternative Anglican structure for conservatives "who find themselves unable to stay in the Anglican Church of Canada but want to stay connected to the Anglican communion."

At its conference last week in Burlington, Ontario, the ANiC made a formal offer to provide "alternative episcopal oversight" to Anglican parishes in Canada.

That oversight will be provided by retired Canadian bishop Donald Harvey, who is now a bishop with the Southern Cone (South American) province of the worldwide Anglican communion under the authority of Archbishop Gregory Venables.
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Bishops without borders launched in Canada
November 29th, 2007
Chris Sugden

Revolutionary movements in Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s headed for the TV stations. In the revolution in the Anglican Communion last week, the Anglican Network in Canada launched its parallel Anglican entity in a TV Station in Burlington, Ontario.

260 leaders of congregations across Canada gathered at short notice. Nothing could be finalised until the Province of Southern Cone synod on 5-7 November had re-elected Gregory Venables as Presiding Bishop and permitted North American churches to affiliate with the Province.
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