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Archbishop Haverland Writes to Bishop Robert Duncan concerning the Inaugural Provincial Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America
Dear Bishop Duncan,
I thank you for your invitation to attend as an observer the inaugural Provincial Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America, which is to gather in Bedford, Texas, from June 22nd to 25th. I congratulate those who will assemble on their movement out of the Episcopal Church. Whatever else we agree or disagree about, we believe that that movement is correct.
Those of us who left the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion a generation ago believe that the ordination of women was then the central problem in the Canterbury Communion. The notion that women can receive the sacrament of Holy Orders in any of its three parts constitutes, in our view, a revolutionary and false claim: a claim false in itself; a claim destructive of the common ministry that once united Anglicans; and, finally, a claim productive of an even broader and worse consequence. That worse consequence is the claim that Anglicans have authority to alter important matters of faith and order against a clear consensus in the central tradition of Catholic and Orthodox Christendom. Once such a claim is made it may be pressed into service to alter any matter of faith or morals.
All Saints Church, Aiken, South Carolina
Happy 60th Jubilee Year to Archbishop John-Charles
Archbishop John-Charles Vockler, who retired as Archbishop-Metropolitan of the Anglican Catholic Church in 2005, was ordained to the priesthood in his native Australia on December 21, 1948. Following his consecration to the episcopate in 1959, he became the youngest bishop in the Anglican Communion. Known to many as Brother John-Charles, he has lived as a professed Franciscan friar for many years and became well-known in the U.S. for his many retreats and lectures on prayer. He has published three books: Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Mystical Gifts, Two Paths to Holiness, and School of Prayer.
African Diocese Received, New Bishops Appointed for Australia & New Zealand at Provincial Synod
At the 17th Provincial Synod, the Rt. Rev. Wilson Garang and his Diocese of Aweil in Sudan were received into the the Anglican Catholic Church. Archbishop Haverland appointed the Rt. Rev. Brian Iverach as his Metropolitical Episcopal Assistant for Australia and East Africa, and the Rt. Rev. Denis Hodge of New Zealand was received as a member of the College of Bishops.
Bishop Garang and Parishioner