Sunday, January 23, 2011

CHARLESTON, SC: Middle East Bishop Calls for Church Council to Resolve Crisis

CHARLESTON, SC: Middle East Archbishop Calls for Church Council to Resolve Anglican Crisis
Primates' failure to implement past resolutions is reason why Global South Primates will not attend

By David W. Virtue in Charleston
www.virtueonline.org
January 22, 2011

The Archbishop of the Middle East, the Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer Anis called for Global South Primates and orthodox bishops in the North and West to hold a Church Council with binding resolutions to break the ecclesiastical logjam in the Anglican Communion.

Speaking to several hundred orthodox Episcopalians and Anglicans at the 6th Annual Mere Anglican Conference honoring Bishop C. FitzSimons Allison, SC (ret.) at St. Phillip's Church, Anis said there is now "no trust left at all" in the communion with "provinces taking actions and moving from the norm of Anglican tradition." Anis called for a Conciliar meeting of orthodox Anglicans to resolve the fundamental theological differences that now pervade the communion.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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