Trouble in the South.Archbishop Peter Akinola Peter Jasper Akinola DD (born January 27 1944[1]) is the current Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria. He is also Bishop of Abuja (Nigeria's capital) and Archbishop of Province III, which covers the northern and central parts of the country. , primate of Nigeria, has excluded the province of Brazil and its primate, Archbishop Orlando Santo de Oliveira, from a meeting of Anglicans of the Global South to be held this month in Alexandria, Egypt. Archbishop Oliveira had dissociated dis·so·ci·ate v. dis·so·ci·at·ed, dis·so·ci·at·ing, dis·so·ci·ates v.tr. 1. To remove from association; separate: his province from the actions of the bishop of Recife, Robinson Calvacanti, who took part in irregular confirmations in Ohio in March 2004. Bishop Calvacanti was later deposed and the diocese appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury's Panel of Reference, but matters came to a head last week when the suffragan bishop Noun 1. suffragan bishop - an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese suffragan bishop - a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered of Recife, Filadelfo Oliveira, deposed 32 clergy loyal to Bishop Calvacanti. The "Recife 32" issued a statement on Sept. 2 expressing their "shock and dismay" at the decree, and protesting the action. Archbishop Akinola described Bishop Calvacanti's deposition as "creating a crisis concerning our relations." Archbishop Orlando, a member of the planning committee planning committee n (in local government) → comité m de planificación for the first South-to-South Anglican meeting in Kenya, said that he was shocked and saddened that an official meeting of 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 had for the first time been set up in a way that was "authoritarian and discriminatory." Church Times |
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