Church Times: Conservative bishops head for Lambeth

IT IS becoming clear that the conservative case is going to be well
represented at the forthcoming Lambeth Conference in Canterbury. At
least two conservative bishops have confirmed that they will be
attending, with the express purpose of promoting their cause.

One is the Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone, the Most Revd Greg
Venables. He told The Times that he would attend both the Global
Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in June and the Lambeth Conference
in July.

Bishop Venables has been censured in recent weeks for ministering to
congregations in Canada and San Joaquin, in the US, without the
permission of the Anglican leader****p in those provinces, and in
contravention of the Windsor process.

He told The Times: =93It is clear the division is pretty final. Dialogue
is the one thing that is lacking. I don=92t think we are going to change
people=92s minds, but I think it would be wrong for us to get to a point
where we acknowledge a division and try to organise it without being
together and talking about it.=94

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