Bishop Wantland: Litigation, Confusion Ahead for Communion

August 19, 2008

Assisting Bishop William Wantland of Fort Worth offered a sobering assessment of a post-GAFCON, post-Lambeth Conference future for the Anglican Communion Aug. 15 in addressing members of the South East Wisconsin American Anglican Council at Nashotah House.

Bishop Wantland, who retired as Bishop of Eau Claire in 1998, minced no words.

“GAFCON (the Global Anglican Future Conference) didn’t need Lambeth,” Bishop Wantland said, “but Lambeth needs GAFCON.”

Bishop Wantland said he was confident that the GAFCON council of primates, which is currently comprised of the nine primates who attended the meeting in Jerusalem in June, would recognize a provisional overlapping Anglican province in North America within the next year. the rest