Loading ...Primate advocates democracy for Anglican Communion
flockwoodIn an article for the Times of London, Archbishop Orombi of Uganda suggests the bishops, not the British government, should choose the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Orombi portrays her Majesty’s Archbishop as a colonial relic.
Click here to read the Times’ article. Of course, if the Anglican Communion ever comes up with a democratic election process for the Archbishop of Canterbury, it will likely mean the end of Anglo-American domination of the institution.
August 1st, 2008 at 9:53 am
What this guy really means is that he wants the new African bishops to elect the Archbishop of Canterbury, so they can get one closer to their views. The Anglican Communion is about to be doomed by its own success. By becoming the primary mainstream church in much of Africa, the Anglicans have succeeded marvelously where so many have failed. But, the African bishops are, for the present anyway, far more conservative than more traditional Anglican bishops in the US, England, and other English speaking countries.
We Anglicans are good at compromise. I suspect that we’ll parry and weave until the situation sorts itself out.