The Windsor Report was the document containing the finding of the Eames Commission. In 2003, Archbishop Robin Eames, the Anglican Primate of All Ireland, was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as Chairman of the Lambeth Commission on Communion, tasked with examining significant challenges to unity in the Anglican Communion, stemming from the reaction of conservatives to the consecration of Gene Robinson as the Bishop of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church USA and the blessing of same-sex unions in the Diocese of New Westminster. The Commission published its report ("the Windsor Report") on 18 October 2004. The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Robin Henry Alexander Eames, Baron Eames (born April 27, 1937) is the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh. ... The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating seamlessly across the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. ... The Anglican Communion uses the compass rose as its symbol, signifying its worldwide reach and decentralized nature. ... Bishop Robinson The Rt. ... The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire is a diocese in the Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA). ... The Episcopal Church or the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America is the American Church of the Anglican Communion. ... The blessing of same-sex unions is a practice officially sanctioned in some parishes of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church in the USA. It is also, according to the current Anglican Primate of Canada, widely practised in parishes of other churches of the Anglican Communion, without... The Diocese of New Westminster is an Anglican Church of Canada diocese in British Columbia, based in Vancouver. ...

The report recommended solidifying the connection between the churches of the Communion by having each church ratify an "Anglican Covenant" that would, in part, commit them to consulting the wider Communion when making major decisions. It also urged those who had contributed to disunity to express their regret.

The report was criticized by liberals (for example, in The Windsor Report: A Liberal Response) for seemingly taking for granted that the actions of New Hampshire and New Westminster--and homosexuality in general--were wrong. For example, while it calls for both conservatives and liberals to apologise for disunity, it acknowledges that the conservatives may have acted out of a sense of duty. However, it concedes no such acknowledgement to New Westminster and New Hampshire.

External links

• The Windsor Report Complete text at the Anglican Communion official website.
• Dave Walker's cartoon interpretation of the Windsor Report A cartoon that became popular at the time of the report's publication.