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.
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.
Darrell Critch’s new diocese is part of an Anglican church in communion with the See of Canterbury, unlike the ACNA. This will likely make his ministry the first of its kind at a time of deep division across the Communion.
The impulse to communion, the desire “to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,” is etched deeply into Anglicans’ life. We may talk like evangelicals, but we usually end up acting like Catholics.
