The Most. Rev. Foley Beach, archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), has been named chairman of the GAFCON Primates’ Council, according to the organization’s Twitter feed.
Beach was elected archbishop of the ACNA in 2014. In 2010 he was consecrated as the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South.
GAFCON also announced that Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi of the Church of Nigeria will serve as the organization’s general secretary.
GAFCON — which describes itself as the “global movement of bible-based, orthodox Anglicans in gospel mission” — is currently meeting in Jerusalem. Covenant writer Esau McCaulley is there, reporting on events as they happen. Follow his posts here.
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
