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A Proposal From the Primates of the Global South & The Anglican Communion Institute as constructed in Nairobi, Kenya, Fall 2003 Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20031207113455/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/nairobi.htm Preamble: In this meeting the Primates speak as the spiritual leaders of the Communion, in full reaffirmation of Lambeth 1998 Resolution 1.10; and of our related commitments made in Brazil in 2003 on the question of same-sex blessings; and in response to the Lambeth resolutions calling for enhanced responsibility and intervention in emergency situations...
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A Request for Action from the Archbishop of Canterbury Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20031204202101/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/request4action.htm * We are confused about the need for elaborate canon law consultation in the matters of ECUSA and New Westminster, in order for the See of Canterbury to act. * The consistent plea of the Anglican Communion Institute has been for the Archbishop of Canterbury to exercise his unimpeachable right to gather or not gather members of this Communion. * We again respectfully request that the Archbishop of Canterbury, joining with...
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Statement Released by the Anglican Communion Institute: Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20031207120041/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/statement.htm Over the past months the Anglican Communion Institute has been working closely with the Primates of the Global South, producing the booklet Claiming Our Anglican Identityfor Archbishops Venables, Akinola and Gomez. This booklet was distributed to all the Primates for the emergency meeting at Lambeth, just completed. Representatives of the ACI were also on hand in London to work on final proposals for discipline earlier this...
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Statement Issued by the Anglican Communion Institute in Response to the Consecration of Robinson Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20031118191150/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/statementonconsecration.htm The consecration of Gene Robinson is a deliberate and flagrant act of disregard: disregard for Lambeth 1.10 and the Lambeth Conference; disregard for the Archbishop of Canterbury; disregard for the Primates; disregard for the Statement issued only two weeks ago, which clearly stated this act would jeopardise the Communion. This act of disregard is intended to show that...
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“ Delegated Episcopal Pastoral Oversight” -- An Alternative Proposal Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040525081339/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/ Introduction Following the consecration of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in November 2004, the Anglican Communion Institute issued a statement calling for those who had variously supported his consent and consecration to declare themselves “independent” of the Anglican Communion’s Instruments of Unity and of their constraints upon common life. This call, however eccentric it may have seemed at the time, was made for the...
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040201222950/http://www.anglicancommuniondioceses.org:80/theologicalcharter.htm Confession and Calling of the Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes Preface There are times within the history of the church when Christians have been faced with threats, some internal and some external, to the integrity of their common life and faith. The recent actions of the Diocese of New Westminster and the General Convention of the Episcopal Church U.S.A. confront the various provinces of the Anglican Communion with just such a threat to the historic Faith and...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018102615/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/plea_ECUSA.htm A Plea to All ECUSA Members As President, Executive Director, and Collegial Theologians of ACI, and on behalf of our co-workers, we want to express our thanks to all who have supported our work with prayer, counsel and financial gifts. We believe we have made a significant contribution to the articulation of a Communion polity: a polity that is both fair to our global history and that also address the problems of finding a properly biblical discipline in this season of...
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Response to Bishop Carranza's Article by Anglican Communion Institute (Feb 10, 2005) Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018095839/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Response_to_Bishop_Carranza_Article.htm The Rt. Rev. Sergio Carranza Bishop Assistant in the Diocese of Los Angeles PO Box 2164 Los Angles, CA 90051 Dear Bishop Carranza, Your anger and disappointment at any obstacle to pursuing your personal vision for sexual behavior has been made clear in your recent posting on the electronic clergy newsletter of the Diocese of Los Angeles. We want you to know that...
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What happened at Newry?—An ACI Response Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20050306001543/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/WhathappenedatNewry42.htm The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Primates indicated that a sufficient statement of regret/repentance had yet to be received from ECUSA, and that such needed to be forthcoming; In terms of one Instrument of Unity (The Lambeth Conference) ECUSA’s status is currently ambiguous. It must consider its place within the Anglican Communion and, before it meets in 2008, signal that it is committed to the interdependent life of...
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Where Is ECUSA on The Windsor Report? by Anglican Communion Institute (Jan 14, 2005) Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018095749/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Where_is_ECUSA_on_Windsor_Report.htm The ECUSA is sending unclear signals about how it regards the definition of the Anglican Communion set forth in the Windsor Report. It speaks of regret but then says it does not regret what it has done to its Communion sisters and brothers, only what it has caused by what it has done. Those who receive what it says ("Integrity"), and its own Bishops (C Irish, Utah)...
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