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> ACC-14 Press Briefing 8th May 2009

Posted On : May 8, 2009 8:06 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
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On Friday May 8, 2009 the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in
Kingston, Jamaica moved into a decision-making plenary session on the
Windsor Continuation Group Report. Earlier in the meeting the Archbishop
of Canterbury had made a presentation on this final report and the
delegates had a number of sessions in Discernment Groups discussing the
report and what should be included in the resolution. They had a
significant impact on the development of the wording that ultimately
came before the meeting today. The meeting heard from a wide variety of
speakers and passed the following resolutions:

> The Windsor Continuation Group
> Resolved, 08.05.09

> The ACC

(a)	thanks the Archbishop of Canterbury for his report on the work
and recommendations of the Windsor Continuation Group,

(b) 	affirms the recommendations of the Windsor Continuation Group,

(c)	affirms the request of the Windsor Report (2004), adopted at the
Primates' Meetings (2005, 2007 and 2009), and supported at the Lambeth
Conference (2008) for the implementation of the agreed moratoria on the
Consecration of Bishops living in a same gender union, authorisation of
public Rites of Blessing for Same Sex unions and continued interventions
in other Provinces;

(d)	acknowledges the efforts that have been made to hold to the
moratoria, gives thanks for the gracious restraint that has been
observed in these areas and recognises the deep cost of such restraint;

(e)	asks that urgent conversations are facilitated with those
Provinces where the application of the moratoria gives rise for concern;

(f)	encourages the Archbishop of Canterbury to work with the Joint
Standing Committee and the Secretary General to carry forward the
implementation of the Windsor Continuation Group Report recommendations
as appropriate,

(g)	asks the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and
Order to undertake a study of the role and responsibilities in the
Communion of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the
Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates' Meeting; the
ecclesiological rationale of each, and the relationships between them,
in line with the Windsor Continuation Group Report, and to report back
to ACC-15;

(h)	calls the Communion to pray for repentance, conversion and
renewal; leading to deeper communion.

Following the passing of the resolution Bishop Gregory Cameron and
Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, the Primate of Australia spoke to the media
about the Report, the process that was followed during the voting
session and some of the next steps on carrying forward the Windsor
Process in the life of the Communion.

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