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[Audrey Whitefield <a.whitefield@quest.org.uk>]

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Jan. 31, 1997
ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE
Canon Jim Rosenthal, Director of Communications
London, England

[97.1.5.2]

ENGLAND: CAMPAIGN GROUP MAY IMPORT BISHOPS

(ACNS) Reform, an Anglican campaign group, has indicated its
intention to set up a network of bishops from England and
overseas who would be available to provide Episcopal oversight
to the group's member and so bypass the oversight of the
Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

The group is conservative Evangelical and is opposed to the
ordination of women and of practising homosexuals. It has
already requested the Archbishops to provide a `flying bishop`
of their viewpoint but this request was turned town. The
chairman of the group, the Revd Philip Hacking, has said that
he could find three bishops required for a valid but irregular
consecration and these might come from overseas. The group do
not plan immediate action but at a meeting in December they
drew up strategies which they have now shared publicly. A
statement from the group said that three strategies were being
planned: "The employment, where necessary, desirable and
possible of retired or other godly bishops in good standing
with the Church", the use of the existing 'flying bishops', or
a future Evangelical one, as requested; and "the election and
consecration, after due process, of bishops from the Reform
constituency who can be employed where necessary and desirable.
Reform says its membership is 600 clergy and 1300 lay members.  They
state
that this strategy has been formed in the context of evangelism "that
everything is in order that we might more effectively evangelise the
nation."

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