Gafcon elects Archbishop of Kenya as its new chairman

May 9, 2011
by George Conger

The Archbishop of Kenya, Dr Eliud Wabukala, has been elected chairman of the Gafcon primates’ council at a meeting of archbishops in Nairobi.

In a statement released on 28 April, the new leader of the global Anglican reform movement said he was honoured by the trust given him by his colleagues. “I recognise that we have set ourselves a truly monumental task but we serve God for whom nothing, not even overcoming death itself, is impossible,” the Archbishop said.

The Rt Rev Bill Atwood, Suffragan Bishop of All Saints Diocese in Kenya and a leader of the Anglican Church in North America, told The Church of England Newspaper the “meeting was like the new chairman: resolute, clear and gracious.”

Dr Wabukala succeeds the Bishop Gregory Venables as chairman of the primates’ council. Two new archbishops also joined the primates’ council in Nairobi: Bishop Tito Zavala of Chile, the Primate of the Southern Cone, and Archbishop Onesphore Rwaje of Rwanda. the rest