Lambeth ban on Robinson upheld
by Pat Ashworth
14 March, 2008

THE Bishop of New Hampshire, in the United States, the Rt Revd Gene Robinson, has said that he is “dismayed and sick-hearted” after learning on Monday that all possibilities for inviting him to the Lambeth Conference had been ruled out. He has confirmed that he intends to be in Canterbury for the duration of the Conference.

“Don’t let them cut me off from you,” he urged the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the US at its spring meeting in Texas on Monday. It emerged that three US bishops — the Bishop of Northern Indiana, the Rt Revd Ed Little; the Bishop of Wyoming, the Rt Revd Bruce Caldwell; and the Bishop of Vermont, the Rt Revd Tom Ely — have been negotiating for months with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s chief of staff, Christopher Smith, and Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, in the hope of arriving at “a substantial invitation”. the rest