Posted on 06/08/2005 7:52:04 AM PDT by sionnsar
(ACNS) Following the proposals made at the February 2005 Primates’ Meeting at Dromantine, the Archbishop of Canterbury recently announced the appointment of Archbishop Peter Carnley as the chairman of the Panel of Reference, and at the same time published the Mandate that establishes the Panel.
The Archbishop is pleased to announce now that the following clerical and lay members of the Anglican Communion have accepted his invitation to become members of the Panel, and has expressed his great appreciation for their interest and commitment.
Chairman
The Most Revd Dr Peter Carnley retiring Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia
Members
His Honour Michael Evans, QC Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Governing Body of the Church in Wales
The Revd Dr Joseph Galgalo Lecturer in Systematic and Contextual Theologies, St Paul’s United Theological College, Limuru, Kenya
Mr Bernard Georges Chancellor of the Province of the Indian Ocean
The Rt Revd Khotso Makhulu, CMG former Primate of Central Africa
The Revd Canon John Moore former International Director of the Intercontinental Church Society (ICS)
Mrs Rubie Nottage Chancellor of the Province of the West Indies
The Rt Revd Claude Payne former Bishop of Texas
The Rt Revd Dr John Sentamu Bishop of Birmingham
The Rt Revd Maurice Sinclair former Primate of the Southern Cone
Mr Robert Tong Member, Church Law Commission, Anglican Church of Australia and Chairman of the Council of the Anglican Church League, Australia
The Revd Stephen Trott Church Commissioner, the Church of England
Ms Fung Yi Wong Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, member of the Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council
The Panel will be supported by Canon Gregory Cameron (Deputy Secretary General, Anglican Communion Office) as Secretary, and Canon John Rees (Legal Adviser, Anglican Consultative Council) as Legal Adviser, assisted by a senior member of Lambeth Palace staff in a liaison role for the Archbishop of Canterbury, together with other administrative support as required.
The first meeting of the Panel will take place at the earliest available opportunity, probably in July or August of this year, when it will agree its day-to-day modus operandi. In accordance with the provisions of the mandate, the Panel will consider only those items referred to it by the Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Primate of the Anglican Communion, in cases where mediation is sought by the Primate.
Contact with the members of the Panel should be through the Anglican Communion Office in London, although any persons wishing to invoke the Panel’s procedures should make contact in the first instance through the Chief of Staff to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr Christopher Smith, at Lambeth Palace. In is only of referral from the Archbishop that the Panel can take on the review of particular cases.
The functions of the Panel are as follows:
At the Archbishop’s request to enquire into, consider and report on situations drawn to his attention where there is serious dispute concerning the adequacy of schemes of delegated or extended episcopal oversight or other extraordinary arrangements which may be needed to provide for parishes which find it impossible in all conscience to accept the direct ministry of their own diocesan bishop or for dioceses in dispute with their provincial authorities
With the Archbishop’s consent to make recommendations to the Primates, dioceses and provincial and diocesan authorities concerned, and to report to him on their response
At the request of any Primate to provide a facility for mediation and to assist in the implementation of any such scheme in his own province.
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. I would think it would be easier to negotiate peace in Gaza than to get anything into, through and out of the PoR. Is this enough to make the point that there's no getting ahead or even staying even in ECUSA? Being humble and staying faithful to the church is one thing, being openly persecuted, insulted and then subjected to this bureaucratic meatgrinder.
But then again, if all that's gone on hasn't been convincing, this won't be either.
Huh. Coulda been a whole lot worse than that. Hopefully they'll take it seriously. Maurice Sinclair is a heavy hitter, for sure.
No active bishops from ECUSA. Actually, no active anyone from ECUSA or Canada.
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