ACNA motion is ‘not attack’ on TEC

by Maria Mackay
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Bishop of Winchester has said a motion asking the Church of England to affirm it is in communion with the Anglican Church of North America is not an attack on The Episcopal Church in the US (TEC).

The motion, put forward by Lorna Ashworth, is to be debated on Wednesday by General Synod, the Church of England’s governing body.

It asks Synod “to express the desire that the Church of England be in communion with the Anglican Church in North America”, founded last year by breakaway conservative Anglicans angry over the liberal shift in TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada. the rest