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ACNS 3931     |     ACO     |	  12 JANUARY 2005

Australian Anglican appointed as Lambeth Conference 2008 manager

Sue Parks is to become the Lambeth Conference 2008 manager. Currently
Director of SPCK Worldwide (the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge), she is to work with the Lambeth Design Group and have
overall responsibility for the conference's planning and organisation.
The Design Group is chaired by the Most Revd Sir Ellison Pogo, the
Archbishop of Melanesia.

Sue Parks, 55, told ACNS that she was an Australian from the Diocese of
Sydney, and that she had come to the UK 20 years ago. She has had
wide-ranging experience of the Anglican Communion through work with
Church Mission Society (CMS) and as a member of the steering committee
of Theological Education for the Anglican Communion (TEAC). In addition
to her work with SPCK, she is also director of 'Feed the Minds', a
communications agency that makes grants for theological resources,
Christian communication programmes, literacy and HIV/AIDS education. She
was present at the last Lambeth Conference in 1998 as a staff worker for
SPCK.

"My abiding memory of the 1998 conference is the vibrant worship that
took place, reflecting the many different backgrounds and cultures
encompassed by the Communion," she said. "I am really looking forward to
working with people from across the Anglican Communion and putting into
practice my experience of the Church worldwide to ensure the smooth
running of this 2008 conference."

The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, the Revd Canon Kenneth
Kearon, said of the appointment: "I am very grateful that such an
important event will benefit from Sue's abilities and talents, and am
sure that our expectations for 2008 will be met and surpassed."

The Lambeth Conference, which draws together Anglican Communion bishops
from around the globe, is convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury
normally once a decade. The last conference took place in 1998. The city
of Canterbury has been the venue for the last three conferences. The
Conference takes its name from the first meeting, which was convened at
Lambeth Palace by Archbishop Longley in 1867. The 2008 conference will
be the fourteenth such gathering.

Sue Parks will maintain an office at St Andrew's House, London, becoming
a member of the Anglican Communion Office staff. She begins in her new
post on 1 May 2005.

For the Lambeth Conference Archives, click here:

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For the Lambeth Conference 1998, click here:

http://www.anglicancommunion.org/lambeth/index.html

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