Anglican leaders to cancel Lambeth Conference?
September 30, 2014
The Lambeth Conference-- the gathering that brings together all the bishops of the Anglican communion-- will not be held in 2018, according to the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the US.
Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said that the Archbishop of Canterbury "is not going to call a Lambeth until he is reasonably certain that the vast majority of bishops would attend." Scores of Anglican bishops, including a heavy proportion of those from Africa, boycotted the most recent Lambeth Conference, in 2008, because of their opposition to recent decisions by the worldwide Anglican leadership to allow for female bishops, homosexual priests, and same-sex unions.
A spokesman for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Justin Welby, declined to comment on the report that the Lambeth Conference would be cancelled. Such a cancellation would be an unprecedented step, underlining the crisis within the Anglican communion.
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Further information:
- Lambeth Conference 2018 cancelled in ongoing gay clergy issue (Irish Times)
- Lambeth Conference cancelled (Anglican Ink)
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