Venables rejects ‘un-Anglican’ claim
Monday, 6th July 2009
By George Conger
The Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone has rejected assertions made by lawyers representing the Episcopal Church that the clergy of the Anglican Church in North America are un-Anglican.
In a June 30 letter to the clergy of the Diocese of Fort Worth, Bishop Gregory Venables reminded them that the Alexandria Primates’ Meeting had affirmed the Anglican bona fides of the American breakaway dioceses and clergy.
While it would “take some time before the institutional structures catch up to the realities of the present day situation in the Communion,” the Diocese of Fort Worth and clergy of Fort Worth remained in “good standing and favour with me” and the Southern Cone. Your “orders and ministries are secure in the Lord and as Anglicans,” he said. the rest
posted by Pat Dague @ 10:14 AM
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At what point did the Presiding Bishop of ECUSA acquire the right, (not to mention the sheer brass neck), to decide who is or is not Anglican. Being Anglican is at root, an individual, personal standpoint in making a denominational choice from the information, ethos and nature of belief presented by that denomination.
Being able, or unable to find a place of fellowship for our personal take on Anglicanism might well be a matter of difficulty, but neither Bishop Schori, nor any given number of lawyers,(especially not lawyers, dare I say), can determine an individual's right to declare for a particular denomination.
Chris Baker - Durham UK
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