Canon James Callaway appointed General Secretary of CUAC

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Jamie Callaway appointed General Secretary of CUAC

Posted On : April 4, 2011 2:38 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
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The Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Colleges and Universities 
of the Anglican Communion (CUAC), Professor Michael Wright, announced 
today the appointment of the Reverend Canon James G. Callaway, D.D. 
as the new General Secretary. He will succeed the Reverend Canon Dr. 
Donald Thompson after their Triennial Conference in Sewanee, 
Tennessee, May 22-25.

Canon Callaway, Deputy for Anglican Partnerships at Trinity Wall 
Street, is widely known throughout the Anglican Communion, 
particularly for his work in forging enduring links with the Church 
in Africa and establishing mutual partnerships as a model for ministry.

CUAC is a worldwide association of over 120 institutions of higher 
education and a network of the Anglican Communion. Its patron is the 
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams. Along with its 
predecessor, the Association of Episcopal Colleges, which consists 
mostly of the Episcopal colleges in the US, CUAC's mission is 
promoting cross-cultural contacts and educational programs.

Professor Wright (formerly Vice Chancellor of Canterbury Christ 
Church University in England) expressed the Board's appreciation of 
the contribution which the retiring General Secretary, Dr. Thompson, 
has made to the work of CUAC over the past ten years. In welcoming 
the appointment of Canon Callaway to the post, Wright stated, "I am 
in no doubt that CUAC will be well served by Canon Callaway. He 
brings a wealth of experience to the role and member universities and 
colleges will relish the opportunity of working with him. The wider 
Anglican Communion will also benefit from this appointment."

Canon Callaway, noting that he is eager to extend his ministry of 
partnership to CUAC's vital mission as a network of the Anglican 
Communion, commented, "the CUAC members are a remarkable expression 
of the Anglican ethos. Strengthening their life together, as well as 
encouraging the founding of new institutions, will ensure their 
continuing to shape what it means to be Anglican in the twenty-first century."

The Reverend Dr. James H. Cooper, Rector of Trinity Wall Street, 
offered his congratulations to Canon Callaway and deep appreciation 
for his extraordinary ministry at Trinity. "Jamie is one of the 
mainstays of the Anglican Communion", noted Dr. Cooper. "This 
appointment brings his gifts further into the life and work of the 
Communion as he continues to strengthen partnerships, convene 
conversations and support unity in the carrying out of the mission of 
the Church."

Reflecting on Callaway's appointment, Dr. Cooper emphasized that 
"part of Canon Callaway's thirty year legacy of ministry has been the 
establishment of Trinity's long standing commitments to its global 
partners. Those commitments will continue unchanged." The Reverend 
Matthew Heyd, Director of Faith in Action, for Trinity, will have 
oversight for all of the parish's grant making, partnerships and 
outreach. The Reverend Benjamin Musoke-Lubega will head up the 
Anglican Partnership team, which also includes Senior Program 
Officer, Sarah Grapentine. Canon Callaway will continue to serve 
Trinity as a consultant to Heyd and the Anglican Partnership team.

> About CUAC

The Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion (CUAC) 
include some 120 institutions on 5 continents, including 50 in India 
and 9 in Japan. The US chapter includes Bard College, Kenyon College, 
Hobart and William Smith College, St Augustine College (Chicago), St. 
Augustine's College (Raleigh) St Paul's College, The University of 
the South (Sewanee) and Voorhees College (South Carolina). CUAC was 
formed as a world-wide association of Anglican colleges and 
universities of higher education at an International Conference of 
representatives assembled at Canterbury in 1993, to:

be a continuing association in the spirit of mutual respect, 
reciprocity and support in order to:  enhance 
international/intercultural understanding through education,

explore values within the context of church-related higher education, and
examine further the potential within the Anglican Communion to serve 
God and the world more effectively, imaginatively and creatively through:

visits and exchanges for students, faculty and administrators
volunteer service to people in need

meetings and conferences on topics of interest to higher education

> regular communications among the members

> joint curricular development

sharing institutional  and educational resource

> For more information:
> http://cuac.anglicancommunion.org