We Represent 85% of All Church Going Anglicans” — Bishop Glenn Davies
by David Virtue, VOL:
Glenn Davies, 72, is the former Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of the Province of New South Wales in the Anglican Church of Australia. Since August 2022 he has served as Bishop of the Diocese of the Southern Cross, an Anglican diocese set up outside of the Anglican Church of Australia to meet the spiritual needs of orthodox Anglican parishes who reject the theological and moral drift of the Anglican Church in Australia. He was guest preacher at the recent 10th annual diocesan convention of the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word (ADLW) in Souderton, PA presided over by the ADLW Bishop Julian Dobbs, a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America.
VOL: The Kigali Statement went right up to the edge calling for a reset of the communion. But can you have a reset without formal schism with Canterbury?
DAVIES: In Kigali, the GAFCON Primates met with the Primates of the Global South Fellowship of Anglicans (GSFA), and all agreed that Archbishop Justin Welby has lost his role as primus inter pares of the Anglican Communion. His capitulation to the revisionist agenda of the world, and his successful promotion of this view to the Church of England’s General Synod has forfeited his role as an Instrument of Communion and our relations with our Mother Church. However, a number of GAFCON and GSFA provinces still have a constitutional connection with Canterbury and the Church of England. Only Nigeria has broken their constitutional bond with Canterbury. While a reordering and resetting of the Anglican Communion is explicit in the Kigali Commitment, it will take some time to make the constitutional adjustments of some provinces. Nonetheless, the current Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Antony Poggo, made a ridiculous statement when he said only the Instruments of the Communion, whose responsibility it is to maintain the unity of the Communion, can make changes the Anglican Communion. Yet he failed to recognise that the so-called Instruments have been an abject failure in the face of the revisionist agenda, which has torn the Communion apart. They are also incapable of reforming the Anglican Communion, so GAFCON and the GSFA have stepped into this vacuum of leadership.
VOL: It seems you gave Welby a get out of jail free card with the call to repentance, but he has okayed a homosexual Dean for Canterbury Cathedral and his Appointments Secretary is a man married to another man. Has he now not stepped over the line?
DAVIES: Yes, he has. Yet, we call upon him to repent, and if he does, we shall forgive – seventy times seven, where true repentance is evident.
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