By David W. Virtue, DD, VOL
The Global Anglican Council — the conciliar body GAFCON raised up as an alternative to the Anglican Consultative Council, the Instruments of Communion, and the Archbishop of Canterbury — announced this week that the headquarters of the reordered Global Anglican Communion will be established in Abuja, Nigeria.
No Sign of Repentance
This should surprise no orthodox Anglican, whether of the West or the Global South, who has watched in vain for more than two decades for a single sign of repentance from Western Anglicanism and its pansexual agenda.
From Lambeth Resolution 1.10, through the Windsor Report, to the present hour, the West has been running Gadarene-like toward the cliff. It has ordained gay and lesbian bishops in the Episcopal Church and in the Anglican Church of Canada, and it has now enthroned a partnered lesbian, Cherry Vann, as Archbishop of Wales — the first such primate in the history of the Communion. Down the slope they go, hastening to join the swine our Lord sent over the edge two thousand years ago, never to return.
Rowan Williams once conceded that on this question the Church felt “out of step with what the rest of the culture take for granted.” The West resolved to close that gap, and it succeeded. Never mind that the more it caught up, the more the pews emptied.
The Decision at Recife
The decision to plant the Communion’s headquarters in Abuja was taken at the Council’s meeting in Recife, Brazil, on Saturday, August 22, 2026, and announced in a communiqué from its chairman, the Most Rev. Dr. Laurent Mbanda, “to strengthen and support the future life and ministry of the global fellowship.”
Abuja was the natural — perhaps the only — choice. It was there, at G26 in March, that the Abuja Affirmation declared the old Instruments of Communion to have failed and proclaimed the Anglican Communion reordered into a truly global Church, with the Jerusalem Declaration as its doctrinal spine and the newly minted Global Anglican Council as its conciliar voice. The city that named the new order should fittingly become the seat from which it is governed.
Where the Believers Are