"And not all Anglicans--or Lutherans--are protestants! Some of them are Anglo-Catholics and evangelical catholics... Yes, I venerate icons. And I believe that Lutherans and Anglicans need to take the lead in recovering the Orthodoxy of the West!!!!"
Indeed. This is something I learned here on FR and for which I am very grateful.
K and I have had discussion (and I'd like to remind him of this) over the past couple of years about the very slow pace at which things move in the Anglican world and never without lots of talk. It is one of the things that differentiates us from the Orthodox who, unhampered by our heritage, are able to react swiftly.
AR, that the Orthodox worship the icons themselves is something new to me. But I see Honorary Serb is addressing that and hope he'll say more.
But as regards insulting the world-wide Anglican Communion (wwAC) by declaring the Archbishop of Canterbury a heretic, I don't think it does. I will note that my ping list predecessor had some quite harsh words to say about the AoC, and even my own bishop has echoed PAR35's remark.
I personally wish the whole thing had been over and concluded many years ago (like maybe about the time I left ECUSA). But it isn't, and so I prefer to emulate the Anglican Global South bishops and not rush to judgement -- we don't know the end of this situation.