The head of the Anglican Mission in America has been threatened with ecclesiastical discipline for contumacy. Unless Bishop Chuck Murphy repents of his disobedience and apologizes for his offensive statements within seven days, the Rwanda House of Bishops will assume that he has “made a de facto choice to withdraw as primatial vicar” of the AMiA.Just read Conger's entire article. I am dumfounded.
In letter from the Rwandan House of Bishops to Bishop Murphy dated 30 Nov 2011, the AMiA leader was chastised for disobedience and abuse of office.
H/T to Susan Russell at An Inch at a Time.
Update from the same article:
Questions were also raised at the meeting about the degree of accountability the AMiA had towards the Rwandan House of Bishops. Bishop Murphy charged the Rwandan bishops with seeking to impose a “reverse colonialism” on the AMiA. Overseeing a church half a world away had not worked during the age of colonial expansion when London missionary societies oversaw African churches and could not work today, he argued.Who would ever have expected...? If that is the case, then may we expect problems in CANA and ACNA?
UPDATE: More letters here and here and rumors, but only rumors, as of now, of more resignations of Anglican bishops from Rwanda House of Bishops from Stand Firm.
It must take a great deal of concentration for the everyday pew sitter to not WANT to be aware of the REAL life character of the would be potentates Akinola/Okoh/Orombi/etc...not a flicker of hope for sanity is possible if this self-duped-self proclaimed extra holy crowd doesn´t rush out and get some fresh air and get over their hategenerating/greedy-grabbingselves.
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Ah Leonardo, but they're the pure ones that the purer-than-thou American 'real Anglicans' want to be associated with. Of course, then they change their minds.
ReplyDeleteMark, thanks. I have the habit of misspelling Rwanda. The headline is fixed now.
But God's Anointed Can't Recant!
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[Down, unChristlike Schadenfreude, down! ;-X]
Dead wood, etc.
I'm not surprised. This was always a marriage of convenience, and not of affection.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that some of the AMiA congregations have also had it with Murphy. On Mimi's last AMiA thread I noted that last month, subsequent to his resignation, Terrell Glenn presided at the dedication of AMiA's new church in Columbia SC. Wondered then what gave; now it seems to be coming out.
ReplyDeleteThe "chessman21" posts here & on the "sheep" thread, are actually me. A friend used my pc & neither told me he had logged on, nor logged off.
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ReplyDeleteLove it, JCF!
Counterlight, I can't say I'm surprised, either, but I'm struggling mightily against Schadenfreude. It's Advent, after all.
Lapin, have you seen a therapist about the multiple identities? ;-)
And I thought I had a brand new commenter.
Baby Blue reports that Murphy has effectively told the Rwandan bishops to shove it. Several links here. Also check the thread which follows BB's Anglican House of Bishops of Rwanda break with AMiA Bishops. Seems that the bishops of Province IV are calling Mark Lawrence on the quit claims
ReplyDeleteLapin, I posted an update with a link to Chuck Murphy's letter of resignation to the Archbishop of Rwanda, and I also wrote a post on the meeting called by the bishops in Province IV.
ReplyDeleteSo you did. Asleep at the wheel today.
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