Sustaining common life in the Anglican Communion
A demanding aspect of the Archbishop's role as focus of unity is his capacity to encourage conversation and resolution where there is disagreement between different parts of the Communion. A central feature of this is currently the deep-rooted dispute over human sexuality and the appropriate limits of diversity within the Anglican Communion. This controversial area and its outworking through the 2004 Windsor Report have been very much to the fore over recent years. With a view to strengthening the ways in which the Communion's member churches relate to each other, the Archbishop has given strong support to the proposal (emerging from the Windsor Report) for an Anglican Covenant. After much work and consideration across the Anglican Communion, the Anglican Consultative Council has now finalized the text and offered the Covenant for adoption to the member churches.
Alongside this, the Archbishop supports the Continuing Indaba project, a biblically-based and mission-focused project designed to develop and intensify relationships within the Anglican Communion by drawing on cultural models of consensus building for mutual creative action. For more information on Continuing Indaba, see here.
Recent items relating to Anglican Covenant, Windsor Process and Continuing Indaba are shown below:
December 2009
Archbishop of Canterbury's Statement on Los Angeles Episcopal Elections
6 December 2009
Following the election of Mary Glasspool as suffragan bishop elect.
July 2009
Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future
27 July 2009
Reflections on the Episcopal Church's 2009 General Convention from the Archbishop of Canterbury for the…
May 2009
Archbishop at the Press Briefing at the ACC Meeting
12 May 2009
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, shares his thoughts on the ACC meeting and answers questions…
Archbishop's Presidential Address to the 14th Meeting of the ACC
11 May 2009
The Archbishop of Canterbury reflects on the achievements of the ACC meeting.
March 2009
Pastoral Visitors Briefing Seminar
2 March 2009
Following the Report of the Windsor Continuation Group to the Archbishop of Canterbury (which was published…
February 2009
Archbishop - What kind of global communion do we want to be?
12 February 2009
The Archbishop on the Anglican Covenant, General Synod, London.
The Archbishop's Presidential Address, General Synod February 2009
10 February 2009
Impressions from the Lambeth Conference; Archbishops' appeal for Zimbabwe and women in the episcopate.…
Primates Meeting Communiqué
5 February 2009
Deeper Communion; Gracious Restraint: A Letter from Alexandria to the Churches of the Anglican Communion
August 2008
Archbishop's Pastoral Letter to Bishops of the Anglican Communion
26 August 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has today sent a letter to the bishops of the Anglican…
Press reports on the Archbishop's correspondence
8 August 2008
In response to the recent coverage of the correspondence dated back to 2000, The Archbishop Canterbury…