During his time filling the primatial role, the Archbishop of York says he will focus on safeguarding, the Living in Love and Faith process, and teaching about the Lord's Prayer.
Seemingly within moments of Justin Welby resigning, many articles began identifying potential successors. Two names are common to almost all the lists, and so I shall start with them.
The Diocese of Wyoming’s Standing Committee has chosen Todd Ousley as the sole nominee for Bishop Provisional, and a special diocesan convention will vote on that proposal.
The Singh family has released a letter written on December 29, telling Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe that it finds the pastoral response “deeply inadequate.”
After a nationwide search, the Episcopal Church Foundation chose former board member Dail St. Claire, a New York Episcopalian with extensive management and investment experience.
Multiple law enforcement agencies are reviewing thousands of pages of bank records for evidence of misappropriation of funds at St. John's Corsicana, Texas, spanning more than a decade.
“Politicians living flashy lifestyles and dishing out unexplained millions in fundraisers at churches each Sunday troubled me,” says Anglican layman Mwabili Mwagodi.
The rural Maryland diocese is undertaking discernment requested by Presiding Bishop Rowe and supported by Church Center funding. But as Episcopal dioceses go, Easton is not very small.
The Bishop of Fianarantsoa in Madagascar will lead a growing province that has remained active in the Canterbury-based Instruments of Communion while also participating in Anglican realignment.
Lord Carey becomes the second Archbishop of Canterbury to resign this year amid abuse scandals, in his case for giving permission for abuser David Tudor to return to ministry in 1993.
Irish Church Missions, a conservative evangelical mission society that has worked within the Church of Ireland for 175 years, joins the GAFCON-sponsored Anglican Convocation Europe.
Presiding Bishop Rowe: “My goal in negotiating this accord with Bishop Singh has been to achieve Title IV’s goals by identifying paths for him to be accountable, to amend his life, and then to seek reconciliation.”
The total divestment, which came three weeks ahead of deadline, applies to $400 million in trust funds managed directly by the Episcopal Church. The Church Pension Fund, dioceses, and parishes are exempt.
Noting that “heads had to roll” in response to the Church of England’s safeguarding problems, he compared himself to a predecessor, whose head rolled down Tower Hill after being struck off during the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381.
IASCUFO’s Nairobi-Cairo Proposals suggest a “narrow revision” of the 1930 Lambeth Conference’s classic description of the Communion that decenters the phrase “in communion with the See of Canterbury,” as well as a term-limited, rotating presidency for the Anglican Consultative Council.
