Posted on 10/21/2025 11:16:14 PM PDT by chajin
Gafcon, a movement claiming to represent the majority of Anglicans worldwide, particularly in the Global South, has officially rejected the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and related institutions such as the Lambeth Conference — declaring itself the true “Global Anglican Communion.”
The declaration marks a formal split in the Anglican Church, following years of mounting concern among Gafcon leaders over what they view as the mainstream Communion’s departure from biblical teaching. Their announcement comes after recent controversies, including the appointment of the Rt. Rev. Cherry Vann, a practicing lesbian, as Archbishop of Wales, and the naming of Dame Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, who has voiced support for same-sex blessings.
In an announcement titled “The future has arrived,” released to members and the public on Oct. 16, Most Rev. Laurent Mbanda, chairman of the Gafcon Primates’ Council and archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, explained the reasons behind the decision.
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Of course, there have been many wonderful, faithful Christians within Anglicanism, e.g., C.S. Lewis. But even 60 years ago, Tolkien was pointing out the incoherence of what he deemed Anglicanism’s “half-remembered traditions and mutilated beliefs.” And that was long before they jumped into women’s ordination and whole LGBT agenda. At what point do sincere Christians still identifying with this denomination step back, assess the dire situation, and declare that this 500 year-old experiment has run its course and does not have a future of Christian witness worth preserving?
What a great statement (of course framed as a rhetorical question)! Always and forever we should be Christian first and wed to Christ way more than to a denomination or local church. As to whether one should stay in such a denomination, I guess the critical factor is if you have a chance at reforming the teachings or at least reforming the people within your sphere of influence. Or if they’re the ones who are shaping you to conform to their hedonistic and anti-Biblical beliefs.
What puzzles me is what do they call themselves?
the majority of “anglos” are in the apostasized CoE and ECUSA groups, so the breakaway groups are mostly West African with large groups of Indians etc.
This isn’t the “Anglican” communion,so then what are they?
And then at the same time the Anglicans started when Henry 8 decided that he wanted to change the rules of marriage, so why are they breaking away now?
This was totally predictable once they elected a female of sorts to be Archbishop of Canterbury. GAFCON was hanging by a thread anyway, and this cut the cord completely.
The CofE didn’t have any theology of their own, it just adopted a simulacrum of Lutheran reform theology and pasted it on to the antiCatholic rump church of Henry VIII.
Good points. The incoherence of it all is mind-boggling. I think that’s part of the reason many of the intellectuals such as Newman who valiantly attempted to square the circle and justify these various contradictions have given up and quit.
All that upheaval for nothing.
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