The Anglican Consultative Council is one of the four "Instruments of Unity" of the Anglican Communion. It was created by a resolution of the 1968 Lambeth Conference. The council, which includes Anglican bishops, clergy and laity, meets every two or three years in different parts of the world. The Anglican Consultative Council has a permanent secretariat (the Anglican Communion Office), based at Saint Andrew's House, London, which is responsible for organizing meetings of the "Instruments of Unity". The Archbishop of Canterbury serves as the president of the secretariat. According to the 1968 resolution, the council has eight functions: The Anglican Communion uses the compass rose as its symbol, signifying its worldwide reach and decentralized nature. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The Lambeth Conferences was the name given to the periodical assemblies of bishops of the Anglican Communion (Pan-Anglican synods), which since 1867 have met at Lambeth Palace, the London residence of the archbishop of Canterbury. ... A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ... Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. ... In religious organizations, the laity comprises all lay persons collectively. ... Jump to: navigation, search The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Arms of the see of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior clergyman of the established Church of England and symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ...

1. To share information about developments in one or more provinces with the other parts of the Communion and to serve as needed as an instrument of common action.

1. To advise on inter-Anglican, provincial, and diocesan relationships, including the division of provinces, the formation of new provinces and of regional councils, and the problems of extra-provincial dioceses.
2. To develop as far as possible agreed Anglican policies in the world mission of the Church and to encourage national and regional Churches to engage together in developing and implementing such policies by sharing their resources of manpower, money, and experience to the best advantage of all.
3. To keep before national and regional Churches the importance of the fullest possible Anglican collaboration with other Christian Churches.
4. To encourage and guide Anglican participation in the ecumenical movement and the ecumenical organisations; to co-operate with the World Council of Churches and the world confessional bodies on behalf of the Anglican Communion; and to make arrangements for the conduct of pan-Anglican conversations with the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches, and other Churches.
5. To advise on matters arising out of national or regional Church union negotiations or conversations and on subsequent relations with united Churches.
6. To advise on problems on inter-Anglican communication and to help in the dissemination of Anglican and ecumenical information.
7. To keep in review the needs that may arise for further study and, where necessary, to promote inquiry and research.

American Churches Shown the Door as Rift Widens THE Anglican Church moved closer to schism yesterday when members of its central administrative council formally asked the Churches of Canada and the US to go. The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the principal international Christian ecumenical organization. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest church or organizational body of Christians, with a membership of over one billion people worldwide. ... Eastern Orthodoxy (also called Greek Orthodoxy and Russian Orthodoxy) is a Christian tradition which represents the majority of Eastern Christianity. ...

Unconvinced by the justifications offered by both Churches on Tuesday for their actions in ordaining an openly homo-sexual bishop and authorising same-sex blessings, members of the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Nottingham asked them to leave the council and its central finance and standing committees.

Although the motion invites the Churches to withdraw voluntarily, it amounts in effect to a punishing expulsion. The debate was held behind closed doors at Nottingham Univers-ity yesterday, and the motion was passed 30 to 28 by secret ballot, with four abstentions.

The Anglican Consultative Council is one of the four “instruments of unity” of the worldwide Anglican Church but it is the only one that has a legal constitution. Based in Britain, it is in effect the central administrative body of the Anglican Communion worldwide.

The primates of the Anglican Church, meeting in Dromantine, in Ireland, in February, had also asked the US and Canadian Churches to withdraw from this week’s meeting in Nottingham. They did so in theory, and turned up as observers only. But with the additional representatives who also turn- ed up to make their presentations, it appeared to observers that one effect of the crisis had been to augment, not decrease, the North American presence in Anglican governing matters.

However, the US and Canad-ian delegates were excluded from the meeting yesterday afternoon, in keeping with their voluntary withdrawal.

The meeting also endorsed the 1998 Lambeth Conference resolution which took a traditionalist line on human sexuality but also called for “listening” to the gay and lesbian community.

The expulsion is effective until Lambeth 2008, when bishops and archbishops are expected to call the North Americans to account.

If there were any doubt left about the serious nature of the rift, this week’s meeting has made clear how far from agreement both sides appear to be, and the extent to which neither is willing to compromise.

The motion was put forward by leaders of the orthodox wing. The Dean of St Paul’s, Dr John Moses, one of the Church of England’s three representatives, called unsuccessfully for a two-thirds majority if it was to be passed.

The US Church, as made clear in its Tuesday presentation, has been developing its theology in favour of ordinations of homosexuals for 40 years and regards itself as a pioneer.

To the Africans, Asians and other fast-growing churches of the “Global South”, the issue of homosexual rights represents not liberation but the threat of another enslavement, to decadent Western liberalism.

Past meetings

• Limuru, Kenya (1971)
• Dublin, Ireland (1973)
• Trinidad and Tobago (1976)
• London, Ontario (1979)
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England (1981)
• Badagry, Nigeria (1984)
• Singapore (1987)
• Wales (1990)
• Cape Town, South Africa (1993)
• Panama (1996)
• Dundee, Scotland (1999)
• Hong Kong (2002)
• Nottingham (2005)

At this meeting, a narrow majority of members voted to request that “the Episcopal Church (USA) and the Anglican Church of Canada voluntarily withdraw their members from the Anglican Consultative Council, for the period leading up to the next Lambeth Conference".

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