(Frank) Griswold tours Nigeria: critics wanm to ECUSA leader.Lagos Presiding Bishop The Presiding Bishop is an ecclesiastical position in some denominations of Christianity. Anglican Anglican Church of New Zealand For a short period the style Presiding Bishop was used by the Anglican Church in New Zealand. Frank Griswold of the Episcopal Church Episcopal Church, Anglican church of the United States. Its separate existence as an American ecclesiastical body with its own episcopate began in 1789. Doctrine and Organization of the U.S.A. visited Nigeria for nine days in mid-January, leading a retreat for Nigeria's bishops -- some of whom were not, at first, eager to receive him. "I think there was some fear that I was coming with an agenda," he said. Nigerian Anglicans, most with strong evangelical roots, have been "formed by a different spirituality and sacramentality" than the Anglo-Catholic Bishop Griswold. But by the end of the retreat they regarded each other with "deep affection," he said. He said some of the bishops were surprised at his response to a question about women's ordination ordination: see ministry; orders, holy. . "I told them that `you have your own cultural context and I would not presume to dictate'" to the Nigerian church about how to proceed on such issues, he said. The retreat was held in Aghara-Otor, Bishop Griswold, his wife Phoebe Phoebe, in astronomy Phoebe (fē`bē), in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn IX (or S9), Phoebe is 137 mi (220 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 8,047,985 mi , and four staff members toured the three provinces of the largest church body in the Anglican Communion Anglican Communion, the body of churches in all parts of the world that are in communion with the Church of England (see England, Church of). The communion is composed of regional churches, provinces, and separate dioceses bound together by mutual loyalty as . |
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