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

[97.1.5.1]

INTERNATIONAL: EAMES COMMISSION MONITORING GROUP MEETS

(ACNS) The monitoring group of the Eames commission (the Archbishop of
Canterbury's Commission on Communion and Women in the Episcopate) met in
London this week. The meeting was chaired by the Most Revd Robin Eames,
Primate of All Ireland who is Chairman of the Commission.

The purpose of the meeting was to consider the responses from the
Provinces
of the Communion to the work of the Commission and to assess the process
of
reception on women's ordination and consecration around the Communion.

Last March every Province of the Communion was sent a questionnaire by
the
Commission. This questionnaire asked Provinces to update the Commission
on
the situation of women's ordination and consecration in their Province;
to
report on the process of reception and relationships within the
Province,
between Provinces and ecumenically on this question; to report on the
status of the debate of women's ordination and consecration in the
Province; to state if the pastoral principles outlined in the Eames
Commission had influenced the province's life and witness and finally to
assess how these pastoral principles have assisted the unity and
diversity
of the Communion.

Two thirds of the Provinces of the Communion have responded to the
questionnaire. The monitoring group will now prepare a report of these
responses for the 1998 Lambeth Conference.