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ACNS 3986     |     LAMBETH	|     8 JUNE 2005

Membership of the Panel of Reference

[ACNS/LAMBETH PALACE, 8 June 2005] Following the proposals made at the
February 2005 Primates' Meeting at Dromantine, the Archbishop of
Canterbury recently announced the appointment of Archbishop Peter
Carnley as the chairman of the Panel of Reference, and at the same time
published the Mandate that establishes the Panel.

The Archbishop is pleased to announce now that the following clerical
and lay members of churches of the Anglican Communion have accepted his
invitation to become members of the Panel, and has expressed his great
appreciation for their interest and commitment.

Chairman:

The Most Revd Dr Peter Carnley
retiring Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia

Members:

His Honour Michael Evans, QC
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Governing Body of the Church
in Wales

The Revd Dr Joseph Galgalo
Lecturer in Systematic and Contextual Theologies,St Paul's United
Theological College, Limuru, Kenya

Mr Bernard Georges
Chancellor of the Province of the Indian Ocean

The Rt Revd Khotso Makhulu, CMG
former Primate of Central Africa

The Revd Canon John Moore
former International Director of the Intercontinental Church Society
(ICS)

Mrs Rubie Nottage
Chancellor of the Province of the West Indies

The Rt Revd Claude Payne
former Bishop of Texas

The Rt Revd Dr John Sentamu
Bishop of Birmingham

The Rt Revd Maurice Sinclair
former Primate of the Southern Cone

Mr Robert Tong
Member, Church Law Commission, Anglican Church of Australia and Chairman
of the Council of the Anglican Church League, Australia

The Revd Stephen Trott
Church Commissioner, the Church of England

Ms Fung Yi Wong
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, member of the Standing Committee of the
Anglican Consultative Council

The Panel will be supported by Canon Gregory Cameron (Deputy Secretary
General, Anglican Communion Office) as Secretary, and Canon John Rees
(Legal Adviser, Anglican Consultative Council) as Legal Adviser,
assisted by a senior member of Lambeth Palace staff in a liaison role
for the Archbishop of Canterbury, together with other administrative
support as required.

The first meeting of the Panel will take place at the earliest available
opportunity, probably in July or August of this year, when it will
establish its day-to-day modus operandi. In accordance with the
provisions of the mandate, the Panel will consider only those items
referred to it by the Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Primate of the
Anglican Communion, in cases where mediation is sought by the Primate.

Contact with the members of the Panel should be through the Anglican
Communion Office in London, although any persons wishing to invoke the
Panel's procedures should make contact, in the first instance, through
the Chief of Staff to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr Christopher
Smith, at Lambeth Palace. It is only by referral from the Archbishop
that the Panel can take on the review of particular cases.

The functions of the Panel are as follows:

At the Archbishop's request to enquire into, consider and report on
situations drawn to his attention where there is serious dispute
concerning the adequacy of schemes of delegated or extended episcopal
oversight or other extraordinary arrangements which may be needed to
provide for parishes which find it impossible in all conscience to
accept the direct ministry of their own diocesan bishop or for dioceses
in dispute with their provincial authorities

With the Archbishop's consent to make recommendations to the Primates,
dioceses and provincial and diocesan authorities concerned, and to
report to him on their response

At the request of any Primate to provide a facility for mediation and to
assist in the implementation of any such scheme in his own province.

NOTES FOR EDITORS

For immediate inquiries:

Canon Jim Rosenthal, Anglican Communion Office: 0207 313 3909

Lambeth Palace Press Office: 0207 313 1280

For the Mandate and Announcement of the Appointment of the Chairman:

See: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/articles/39/75/acns3977.cfm

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