Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, the leader of 23 million Anglicans in Nigeria, said that while the historic position of the Archbishop of Canterbury would always be respected he should be seen as “one of” many primates.My goodness! I agree with Abp Okoh!
From the Telegraph.
Yeah, but you want "inter pares", Mimi.
ReplyDeleteOkoh wants to REPLACE the ABC (w/ himself, of course!)
JCF, I agree. What the GAFCONites want is a coup, if they can bring it off. They want to BE the Anglican Communion and decree who's in and who's out.
ReplyDeleteThat's the way I've always understood it... it's only recently that there seems to be a shift toward making the ++ABC a little pope.
ReplyDeleteBut unlike you - VERY unlike - Okoh & Co say this because they intend that a primate who they elect will collegially dictate what the Communion believes.
ReplyDeleteWonder who's attending Gafcon's London junket? (no list of attendees published. wonder why. not many people there?) and more to the point, who's footing the bill? Bet your life it's not the African provinces whose man on the streets gets by on dollars & cents a day. And Jensen's Sydney went bust rolling the dice on the stock exchange. Guessing it's not TEC, whose Lambeth bankrolling is a constant target of scorn from, and source of aggravation to these people. Smoke & mirrors?
margaret, this mini-pope business spooks me. I left Rome to get away from a church with powerful central authority, not to search for a new and different autocrat.
ReplyDeleteMark Harris has a meaty post at Preludium in which he tells us that Mark Lawrence of South Carolina is in London.
Further, several bishops in the Episcopal Church, all but one Communion Partners, have joined as "friends of the court" in Texas. “These amici curiae support the traditional polity of The Episcopal Church founded on the autonomy of its constituent dioceses and therefore submit that the trial court erred both as a matter of fact and as a matter of law when it found that The Episcopal Church has a hierarchical authority superior to the diocese and its bishop.”
And let's not forget that a Communion Partner rector, Jacob Owensby, was elected bishop of the Diocese of Western Louisiana. More and more it looks to me as though the dissidents have big plans.
As to the funding of the GAFCON meeting, I wondered about that last night. London is not cheap.