Archbishop Justin Welby’s Global Anglican Strategy: Neutralize GAFCON
by David Virtue, VOL:
It is now apparent that the Archbishop of Canterbury’s strategy leading up to the next Lambeth Conference in 2020 is to get as many African Primates on board over the next three years and thus neutralize the growing vibrant Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) which stands as the biggest thorn in the flesh to his ambitions to keep the Anglican Communion together at any cost.
But will it work? That is the $64,000 question.
Consider the following.
Justin Welby recently appointed the former Archbishop of Burundi, Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi as the new Director for the Anglican Centre, Rome. He succeeds New Zealand born Archbishop David Moxon, a liberal appointee by Rowan Williams. Moxon retires in June.
A press report said Ntahoturi, 68, served as Primate of the Anglican Church of Burundi from 2005 until 2016, and was active in seeking peace in war-torn Burundi and the Great Lakes region of Africa and represented the protestant churches of Burundi during the peace and reconciliation negotiations in Tanzania, which were instrumental in bringing peace to Burundi. He is Chair of the Inter-Anglican Standing Committee on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO).
“I am personally delighted that Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi has agreed to take up the joint post of Archbishop’s Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. The appointment of a former Primate to this post for the second time running demonstrates the importance I attach to developing the increasingly close relationship between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church,” said Welby.
With Rome perhaps, but not with the rest of his fellow African brethren.
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