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May 23, 2007
Robinson & Minns Not on Lambeth Invite List
Two bishops at the heart of the U.S. Episcopal Church’s divisions over sexuality and scripture will not be invited to next year’s global gathering of Anglican prelates, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s office said Tuesday.
Gay Bishop Kept Out of Anglican Meeting
By RACHEL ZOLL
The Associated Press
Full Story: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052200411.html
Those not invited: New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson, who lives with his male partner, called the decision Tuesday "an affront to the entire Episcopal Church." The other prelate, Bishop Martyn Minns, leads a U.S. parish network formed by Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola to counter the liberal-leaning American denomination on its home turf.
Robinson may be invited to attend the Lambeth Conference as a guest, but Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is not contemplating inviting Minns, Kearon said.
“The question of Gene Robinson … I think has exercised the archbishop of Canterbury’s mind for quite some time,” he said, and there was no question that Robinson was duly elected and consecrated a bishop in accordance with the rules of the Episcopal Church.
“However, for the archbishop to simply give full recognition at this conference would be to ignore the very substantial and very widespread objections in many parts of the communion to his consecration and to his ministry,” Kearon said.
The conference, generally held every 10 years, will meet at the University of Kent in England from July 16-Aug. 4, 2008.
Posted by latimer at May 23, 2007 04:12 PM