Archbishop of Wales says he would resist a new American Province “with every fiber of his body”.
From Baby Blue Blogspot Report on Diocese of Virginia Annual Council
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Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, returns to the podium. He is going to "table" his fourth meditation. Instead, he’s going to give closing reflections on what he’s seen happen over the past several days, including the hospitality he’s been shown, the outward-lookingness of people, the encouragement that people show one another, the wide-variety of items on the agenda, also impressed with the ministries that the diocese provides, more than most Welsh dioceses do.
Now he’s telling the council that he doesn’t want them to think that The Episcopal Church and Canada are pariahs – but that all are in the firing line. He feels that The Episcopal Church has behaved "graciously" unlike other members of the Communion.
Regarding the Covenant, he says the Church in Wales has problems with the Covenant and hasn’t adopted it. He says he is concerned that the current draft still has "punitive" clauses that encourages spying on one another.
He said that he would resist the founding of another province with every fiber of his body. He got a standing ovation for that one. He says it’s "total nonsense." He says that if it’s possible for that to happen to The Episcopal Church, it’s possible for any of us, he says. He says he’s a minority in the primates. And he commended Bishop Lee’s work.
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