Response to: ACO’s Secretary General’s Statement about CANA

December 15, 2006, Fairfax, VA — You may have noticed the following statement in Anglican news circles recently:

From the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion 'In response to a number of queries, and following consultation with The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion has issued the following statement:

"The Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) is, to my knowledge, a "mission" of the Church of Nigeria. It is not a branch of the Anglican Communion as such but an organsation which relates to a single province of the Anglican Communion. CANA has not petitioned the Anglican Consultative Council for any official status within the Communion's structures, nor has the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated any support for its establishment."'
- The Revd Canon Kenneth Kearon

CANA has made it clear that CANA exists, at this time, as a constitutionally and canonically established expression of the Anglican Communion as a gracious initiative of the Church of Nigeria. Indeed, we have not sought a separate free standing existence.

The language of the announcement, however, seems to acknowledge such a move may be made in the future in the phrase: "CANA has not petitioned the Anglican Consultative Council for any official status within the Communion’s structures." We do not anticipate making any such application apart from the growing coalition of orthodox Anglicans in North America who can no longer function within The Episcopal Church.

We understand that the need for a separate ecclesiastical structure of the Anglican Communion in the USA will be a topic that will be discussed by the Primates when they meet in Dar Es Salaam next February and we will await the result of their deliberations.

We recognize the complexity of the situation that confronts the Archbishop of Canterbury and continue to hold him and all of the faithful leaders of the Anglican Communion in our prayers.

This article comes from the Convocation of Anglicans in North America
http://www.canaconvocation.org/

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