Showing posts with label Bp Richard Chartres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bp Richard Chartres. Show all posts

Thursday, May 3, 2012

WELCOME, WELCOME, FOCA!

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.