Church of England General Synod Recognises Anglican Church of North America

In what many see as a direct snub to the Episcopal Church in the USA (TEC), the General Synod of the Church of England this week passed a motion recognizing orthodox Anglicans who have separated themselves from TEC.  In Anglican-speak, the motion, endorsed by 309 votes with just 69 against and 17 abstentions, also gave the Archbishop of Canterbury 12 months to get off the fence and recognise what the majority of Anglicans worldwide decided long before the last Lambeth conference, that TEC is bad news and the future for the Church of England lies in communion with the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.

That this Synod, aware of the distress caused by recent divisions within the Anglican churches of the United States of America and Canada
a) recognise and affirm the desire of those who have formed the Anglican Church in North America to remain within the Anglican family
b) acknowledge that this aspiration, in respect both of relations with the Church of England and membership of the Anglican Communion, raises issues which the relevant authorities of each need to explore further; and
c) invite the Archbishops to report further to the Synod in 2011.

Matt Kennedy is rather more sceptical - see here 

David Virtue is much more upbeat - "The vote, when it came, stunned everybody. There were visible sounds from delegates and then brief applause. At 309 to 69 (reminiscent of the Lambeth resolution 1:10 vote 527 to 69), members of the Church of England Synod, the governing body of the church, unanimously voted to affirm The Anglican Church of North America (ACNA) and to recognize its existence as legitimately Anglican.

It was immediately hailed as another stepping-stone in orthodox Anglicanism, separating the true orthodox and evangelical faithful from Western pansexual Anglicanism."

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