Anglican Mainstream

The following 31 members of General Synod send their greetings to Bishops-elect Atwood and Murdoch in Kenya, and Guernsey in Uganda, and to the Houses of Bishops in the Anglican Church of Kenya and the Church of Uganda.

We greet you in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

As with the calling and consecration of any other Bishop, we recognise the calling of the global Church to you to exercise an Episcopal ministry. Yours will be an Episcopal ministry that is out of the ordinary. You will represent vibrant and growing Churches in Africa in their love and care for those in the United States who are suffering for their commitment to the faith once delivered to the saints, in the face of a determined capitulation by The Episcopal Church to the forces of contemporary North American culture.

We see in your ministry a wonderful expression of the Gospel promise that there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, but all are one in Christ Jesus. For African Christians who live in economically poorer countries are taking considerable risks in their relations with powerful institutions in order to care for American Christians in economically privileged countries. We see here the universal church responding to the needs of local churches, and the local church responding to the need of the universal church, to find a way to preserve global orthodox Anglican witness and fellowship, that is not impaired by man-made intermediate structures.

Your pathway is into the unknown. The way is strewn with pitfalls. Only Jesus will keep you in the way. Into his hands we commit you as you lead and teach his people in the American corner of his vineyard.

Edward Armitstead (Bath and Wells)
Tom Benyon (Oxford)
Jane Bisson (Winchester)
Paul Boyd Lee (Salisbury)
Nigel Chetwood (Gloucester)
Ian Dobbie (Rochester)
Sarah Finch (London)
Dr Philip Giddings (Oxford)
Mary Judkins (Wakefield)
Frank Knaggs (Newcastle)
David Mills (Carlisle)
Steve Mitchell (Derby)
Gill Morrison (Peterborough)
Terry Musson (Truro)
Gerry O’Brien (Rochester)
Andrew Presland (Peterborough)
Jonathan Redden (Sheffield)
Alison Ruoff (London)
Clive Scowen (London)
Mike Streeter (Chichester)
Rupert Shelly (Winchester)
Ruth Whitworth (Ripon & Leeds)
Alison Wynne (Blackburn)

Revd Peter Ackroyd (St Albans)
Revd John Cook (London)
Revd Clive Hawkins (Winchester)
Revd Angus Macleay (Rochester)
Revd Paul Perkin (Southwark)
Revd Colin Randall (Carlisle)
Canon Dr Chris Sugden (Oxford)

Rt Rev Michael Nazir Ali (Rochester)

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