In live webcast, Presiding Bishop says making connections was a highlight of Lambeth

By Solange De Santis
August 07, 2008

[Episcopal News Service] Making connections and forging relationships with Anglican bishops from around the world was a highlight of the just-concluded Lambeth Conference, said Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in a live webcast on August 7.

Also appearing on the webcast from the Episcopal Church Center in New York City was Bishop Mark Sisk of the Diocese of New York, who said the gathering was "an opportunity to put a face to this communion."

The conference, which took place in Canterbury, England from July 16 to August 3, is a once-per-decade meeting of the bishops of the Anglican Communion that is held at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The 2008 conference drew 670 bishops from 37 of the 38 Anglican provinces; about 135 bishops of the Episcopal Church registered.

During the webcast, questions were accepted from a live audience in New York and via email.
One of the contentious issues of the conference was a continued call for moratoria on blessing same-sex unions and consecrating partnered gay persons to the episcopate and on interference in other jurisdictions to minister to conservatives. the rest