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Robinson appointment 'invalid' Number: 5722 Date: June 17, The consecration of the Anglican Church’s first openly gay bishop could be annulled in a bid to save the Communion from splitting over the homosexuality issue. A paper has been presented to the Eames Commission, charged with solving the crisis, which argues that the consecration was invalid and that Gene Robinson cannot be regarded as a bishop. At this week’s critical meeting of the Eames Commission in South Carolina, one of its members, Archbishop Drexel Gomez, presented the document as a possible solution to the row that has engulfed the Communion. It...

Liberals in church 'pursuing gay agenda' By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent The Anglican crisis over homosexuality deepened yesterday when a leading conservative accused liberals of pushing ahead with their agenda despite the imminent danger of schism. The Primate of the West Indies, Archbishop Drexel Gomez, said that last month's appointment of Dr Jeffrey John as Dean of St Albans had seriously undermined pleas for the warring parties to show restraint. He added that a debate by the Anglican Church in Canada on gay marriages later this month was a further provocation, as was the treatment of conservative parishes by liberal...

Archbishop Gomez Expects Discipline for Episcopal Church The Episcopal Church will be disciplined for permitting same-sex liturgical blessings and for consecrating a sexually active homosexual person as Bishop of New Hampshire, according to the Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, Primate of the West Indies and a member of the Lambeth Commission, which is due to issue a recommendation later this year. The bishops of Dallas and Pittsburgh were joined by some leaders of the Episcopal Church’s mission community, the Presiding Bishops of two “continuing” Anglican churches and the Primate of the Southern Cone at a conference in Nassau, Bahamas, March 30-April...

<p>NAIROBI, Kenya — The shock waves of last year's ordination of an openly homosexual bishop in the United States reverberated in Kenya yesterday, as Anglican leaders from across Africa began meeting to discuss whether to keep accepting crucial funding from the U.S. Episcopalian Church.</p>

African Primates in make-or-break summit Number: 5712 Date: April 8, Africa’s continuing place in the Anglican Communion will come under sharp scrutiny next week as the leaders of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa [CAPA] meet in Nairobi. The summit, running from April 14-16, will review the future of CAPA in light of the consecration of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in the USA. The 12 African Primates and the Bishop of Egypt will be joined by the Archbishops of Southeast Asia, South America, the West Indies, the Philippines, Pakistan, and New Guinea along with other Anglican...

NON-COMMUNION BISHOPS INVITED TO THE BAHAMAS Anglicans United has reported that the Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, Archbishop of the Bahamas and West Indies, and the Most Rev. Gregory Venables, new Archbishop of the Southern Cone, have invited the Presiding Bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church and the Anglican Province of America, to meet with them in the Bahamas to discuss the way forward for faithful, orthodox Anglicanism on the American Shore in a meeting to take place from 27 March to 2 April. In addition to the two Presiding Bishops, three other REC bishops have been invited to attend and...

Hardline archbishops gather on eve of summit By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 14/10/2003) Conservative primates will today intensify their pressure on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, by meeting to plot a hardline strategy on the eve of the Lambeth Palace summit on homosexuality. Dr Rowan Williams More than half of the worldwide Church's 38 primates and a large group of traditionalist American bishops are planning to gather at All Souls, Langham Place, an evangelical church in London. They will make clear that they will reject any attempt by Dr Williams to delay disciplining the liberal American Episcopal...

Anglican Church faces crisis, risks schism By Al Webb United Press International Published 10/13/2003 3:54 PM View printer-friendly version LONDON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Leaders of the Church of England, under the captaincy of their new archbishop of Canterbury, are headed this week into an unprecedented crisis meeting that could lead to a schism in the worldwide 77 million-member Anglican Communion over the issue of ordaining homosexual bishops and priests. Dr. Rowan Williams, formally installed in the Canterbury archbishopric only last February, has ordered the church's 38 primates into an emergency session in London to deal with what he described...