The Rwandan archbishop who wrote to 12 conservative New Westminster clergy last week with an offer of "ecclesiastical protection" now says the offer was a misunderstanding.
08 July 2002
The Revd Scott Helferty, Rector of the Grace Episcopal Church on School Street in New Bedford, MA, presided over a Sunday service on June 30 at 10:00am to publicly dedicate the Cary Memorial Altar as a sacramental fitting in memory of the late Joan Cary of South Dartmouth, MA.
08 July 2002
Provisional Purpose Statement..To create an open space wherein representatives from a broad range of Christian churches and interchurch organizations, which confess the triune God and Jesus Christ as perfect in His divinity and humanity, can gather to foster mutual respect, to explore and address together common challenges.
08 July 2002
A consultation towards a Global Christian Forum took place at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California from 15-20 June 2002. Among the 55 participants were representatives from various Orthodox (Eastern and Oriental), Catholic, Anglican, Reformation Protestant, Pentecostal, Evangelical, and African Instituted churches as well as interchurch organizations.
08 July 2002
Bishop William Smalley of Kansas has informed clergy that he will begin authorising the limited blessing of non-married persons. This policy would extend to heterosexual couples for whom marriage would create a financial hardship, and homosexual couples.
01 July 2002
Dissident Anglican clergy, who walked out of their diocesan synod protesting a vote to allow same-sex blessings, have an offer of "ecclesiastical protection" from a bishop far afield of their Vancouver-area diocese of New Westminster.
01 July 2002
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Michael Peers, welcomed the open letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Revd Dr Trevor Walters.
20 June 2002
The diocese of New Westminster will have same-sex blessings, but also likely fewer parishioners after its synod voted 63 per cent in favour of blessing the unions of gay and lesbian couples.
18 June 2002
In the afternoon of 5 June 2002, 15 ecumenical partners gathered in the Episcopal Church Center in New York, at the invitation of William Cardinal Keeler, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore.
18 June 2002
A new fundraising proposal, aimed at injecting fresh life into the Anglican Church's work and nailing down an amount that residential schools negotiators can offer to the federal government, was presented to Council of General Synod (CoGS) at its spring meeting. CoGS approved the proposal, dubbed the Marigold Report, with one amendment.
18 June 2002