Group will frame church response to report.Chairs of General Synod The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations. Church of England In the Church of England, General Synod was instituted in 1970 and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had (national church) standing committees and councils have struck a task force that will advise the primate and Council of General Synod about "an appropriate process" by which the Anglican Church of Canada would respond to the Windsor Report published in October by the Lambeth Commission on communion. The task force, comprising bishops, clergy, lay people and General Synod staff, will meet in January to gather responses about the Windsor Report from Anglican churches in Canada to provide advice to Archbishop Andrew Hutchison Andrew Sandford Hutchison L.Th., D.D, D.C.L. (h.c.) (born in Toronto in 1938), is a retired Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Prior to his election at the General Synod of 2004, he was the bishop of Montreal and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Canada (which, , primate of the Anglican Church of Canada The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada (referred to in older documents as the Primate of All Canada) is elected by the General Synod of the Church from among a list of five bishops nominated by the House of Bishops. , in preparation for the primates' meeting in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. next month. Meanwhile, Archbishop Hutchison has asked Canadian Anglicans to send their responses to the Windsor Report to windsor@national.anglican.ca "I encourage you to look at the report," the primate said in a Nov. 16 Web cast archived on the national church Web site (www.anglican.ca). "The issue here is not whether the blessing of same-gender relationships is right or wrong. The issue is how 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 worldwide and indeed, across Canada, can maintain its unity in the presence of disagreement." Appointed as task force members were: Bishop Peter Coffin of Ottawa; Bishop Michael Bedford-Jones, suffragan suf·fra·gan n. Abbr. Suff. or Suffr. 1. A bishop elected or appointed as an assistant to the bishop or ordinary of a diocese, having administrative and episcopal responsibilities but no jurisdictional functions. of Toronto; Canon Linda Nicholls; Cynthia Haines Turner; Patricia Bays and Canon Timothy Connor. The house of bishops also appointed two bishops to join the task force: James Cowan of British Columbia and Colin Johnson of Toronto. The task force will be assisted by Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, director of General Synod's faith, worship and ministry department; Ellie Johnson, director of the partnerships department and Archdeacon Jim Boyles, general secretary. Mr. Boyles is also part of an international group gathering responses to the report. He was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the main leader of the Church of England and by convention is also recognised as head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The current archbishop is Rowan Williams. to a six-member Reception Reference Group that will prepare "an accurate and insightful briefing" on the reactions worldwide to the Windsor Report for the primates meeting. |
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