Bishop explains his ‘Lambeth difficulty’
By George Conger, CEN
The Bishop of Rochester will not attend this summer’s Lambeth Conference. Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali said his absence from Lambeth was a “statement of conscience” and shared by “hundreds of bishops.”
In a statement released during the Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) on June 23, Bishop Nazir-Ali explained his “difficulty” in attending Lambeth arose from the problem of “Eucharistic fellowship with and teaching the common faith alongside those who have ordained a person to be bishop whose style of life is contrary” to the teaching of the Bible and the Church.
“I found it difficult to be around a common table” in Eucharistic fellowship “with people who have gone against the common” mind and received teachings of the church, he said.
He was “not boycotting” Lambeth but was unable to attend the gathering as it was presently constituted. “If the difficulty was removed, I would go,” he said.
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