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The already complex reality of global Anglicanism is becoming even more intricate.
Earlier this month, a body known as GAFCON — the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans — declared it was “now the Global Anglican Communion.”
The towers of Canterbury Cathedral, seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is ‘a focus of unity’ of the Anglican Communion. Credit: © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.
In the Oct. 16 declaration, entitled “The future has arrived,” the alliance of conservative Anglican church leaders said it had resolved to “reorder” the Anglican Communion, the world’s third-largest Christian communion after the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy.
“Today, GAFCON is leading the Global Anglican Communion,” said the statement signed by Rwandan Archbishop Laurent Mbanda, chairman of GAFCON’s Primates’ Council.
“As has been the case from the very beginning, we have not left the Anglican Communion; we are the Anglican Communion,” he added.
What are the roots of the Anglican Communion? Where does GAFCON fit in? And what does its new declaration mean?
A cartoon about the original 1867 Lambeth Conference in the magazine Punch. Public Domain.
A communion’s roots
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What’s happening to the Anglican Communion?
The already complex reality of global Anglicanism is becoming even more intricate.
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