ACNA House of Bishops Receive Phase 4 on Women’s Ordination
by David Virtue, VOL:
Acknowledging “tensions” inherent in three streams – Evangelical, Anglo-Catholic, and Charismatic — that make up the Anglican Church in North America, some 47 ACNA bishops from multiple jurisdictions, met together January 9-13, 2017, in Melbourne, Florida.
“We give thanks for the breadth of Anglicanism, and the unity that we in the Anglican Church in North America have in Christ,” the bishops said in a press release.
A Holy Orders Task Force examining the issue of women’s ordination concluded Phase 4 of their work and presented it to the college. “The Phase 4 report is being formatted and combined with the previous documents from the task force. This report will be passed on to the GAFCON Primates and to our ecumenical partners for feedback, and released to the whole Church in late February. The bishops will pick up these discussions at their next two meetings, in June and September of this year.”
In 2012, the task force was asked to develop resources to help guide the bishops’ future discussions on holy orders in general, and the ordination of women in particular. At our meeting this week, the Holy Orders Task Force presented Phase 4 of their work to the college. The College thanked the task force for the hard work that they have done on this topic in just a few short years. Having received the report at this meeting, the conversation then turned to the timeline for addressing these issues.
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