Anglican meeting to go ahead despite boycott

09 January 2011
By Kieron Wood

There are no plans to cancel the meeting of Anglican Church leaders in Dublin this month, despite a boycott by up to a quarter of the primates, a senior Anglican has confirmed.

Up to ten of the leaders of the Anglican Communion’s 38 provinces have said they won’t attend the biennial meeting because of the presence of Katharine Jefferts-Schori, the presiding bishop of the Episcopalian Church of the United States and a supporter of gay bishops and same-sex marriage.

The Church of England newspaper had reported that the head of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, was considering scrapping the event because of the proposed boycott. the rest