Bishop Ingham reports to diocese on the Lambeth Conference

Monday 22 Sept. 2008

Excerpt:
At the public meeting, held in Christ Church Cathedral on September 16, Bishop Ingham said it was becoming apparent that the foreign primates had “no interest whatsoever” in withdrawing.
As for the request that same sex blessing cease, the bishop noted that clergy and lay delegates to several diocesan synods in Canada had already voted, some with large majorities, to ask their bishops to authorize a rite of blessing.

“The Canadian church will take very seriously what the Windsor [Continuation] Group recommends,” he said.

In the Diocese of New Westminster, Bishop Ingham repeated that he will ask the next Diocesan Synod in May of next year to seriously consider what we should do. By then there will be more statements from the Windsor Continuation Groups after it meets this fall, and recommendations from a meetings of Primates in February and of the Anglican Consultative Council in May. the rest