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| Richard Chartres, Bishop of London |
At an evening gathering of over 500 Anglicans in the Emmanuel Centre, Westminster, on Thursday 26 April, the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (UK and Ireland) hosted scores of senior Anglican leaders from 30 countries who arrived from conference at St Mark’s, Battersea Rise, in a fleet of red double decker buses. They were welcomed by the Bishop of London who encouraged them in evangelism. They also heard of Christian witness amid the terrorism in Nigeria and countries of Central Asia.I'd say to Bishop Chartres, "Careful, this welcome and encouragement to the FoCA folks to evangelize may come back to bite you." But what do I know?
Names! I want names of the 'senior Anglican leaders from 30 countries' in attendance. Not that I can kick ass after I take names. I just want to know.
“The Primates of the FCA have assured us that, through instruments now available in this country, including the panel of bishops of the Anglican Mission in England and the FCA UK, those who might otherwise have been under pressure to leave the Church of England can remain within the family of global Anglicanism and be recognized by that body as faithful to the Church of England itself.”There you have it.
The photo is a still from the video of the bishop's sermon at the royal wedding of Kate and William.
Not another mention of Chartres in the Sugden piece you link, Mimi. He's only there for the headline, to give the impression to the reader that he supports Foca/Gafcon.
ReplyDeleteExactly. A commenter on Facebook said Chartres is willing to engage with anyone.
ReplyDeleteI want to know who was there from 30 countries...I´m afraid this is the same group of instigators who often forge names to documents of people who didn´t even attend (or agree to sign their various manifestos). Tiresome lot (and deadly too, especially in Africa, Jamaica/West Indies)!
ReplyDeleteYes, a lot of these folks are the same ones who stirred the pot over here in the US. The AMiA (Anglican Mission in America) folks are no longer part of the Episcopal Church. They were under the authority of the Anglican bishop of Rwanda, but the group split, and some stayed with the bishop, and the others are still adrift, so far as I know.
ReplyDeleteThe AMiE (Anglican Mission in England) group is, for now, still part of the Church of England, so we'll see what happens over there.
can remain within the family of global Anglicanism and be recognized by that body as faithful to the Church of England itself
ReplyDelete"It was necessary to destroy the CofE in order to be 'faithful to' it."
JCF, I'm afraid so, but then I'm cynical and suspicious.
ReplyDeleteI know nothing about Chartres but I heard his sermon at the royal wedding and it was not a good vibe I got from him: an iron fist beneath a velvet mitre.
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