2009 Meeting Announcements and Statements of Support

A meeting of Communion Partner Primates, Bishops and Rectors is scheduled for April 16-17, 2009, at St. Martin’s in Houston, Texas. Will you join us? Communion Partners is a way to identify with the missionary and the theological distinctives of the Anglican Communion of Churches.

See what others have said about the Communion Partners:

“The Communion Partner Rectors met at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston November 5-7. Forty rectors were able to be present. We were supported by the Bishop of Texas, Western Louisiana, Western Kansas and Central Florida, who were able to be present as representatives of the sixteen bishops involved with Communion Partners.”

– The Rev. Dr. Christopher Seitz

“I think the Communion Partners Plan is the best way forward during the current challenges we are facing. For the first time, we have a fellowship not only of bishops, but rectors as well; and we have need your support for a long time.”

– The Rt. Rev. Don A. Wimberly, Bishop of Texas

“… We are spending a great deal of time defining what we are not, and we need to spend more time telling people who we are – firmly committed to the developing Covenant and Windsor principles and mindful of the proper parameters of the Episcopal Church, but not limiting our work – nor our relationships – to TEC alone.”

– The Rev. Dr. Chuck Alley, who serves on the advisory group of rectors and is rector of St. Matthew’s, Richmond

“… it seems to be widely agreed in the [Lambeth] Conference that internal pastoral and liturgical care, strengthened by arrangements like the suggested Communion Partners initiative in the USA…are the way we should go if we want to avoid further ecclesial confusion…” [from his ‘Lambeth Presidential Address’ on 3 August, 2008]

– Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

“I believe that Communion Partners is, in this season, the way of solid Anglican witness to Christ’s Gospel in the United States: faithful, peaceable, steadfast, and bound to the full mission of the Anglican Communion.”

– Ephraim Radner, Professor of Historical Theology Wycliffe College, University of Toroto

“I am delighted to support the work of the Communion Partner plan, which exists to seek a solution to the breakdown in the Anglican Communion by dialogue, friendship and understanding.”

– George Leonard Carey, the Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. The Lord Carey of Clifton, 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury

“The Communion Partner Plan is perhaps the last great hope for keeping what is left of the Episcopal Church out of the opposing trenches of relativistic revisionism or schism … noting that the Church fathers said the two great enemies of faith were heresy and schism – the did not say one was better that the other – that both were tools of the devil to break apart the family of God. The Communion Partner Plan is one answer of getting the church back in the middle of the road and keeping it from the ICU that awaits them in either of these trenches.”

– The Rev. Dr. Russell J. Levenson, Jr., St. Martin’s, Houston

“As one of the three Communion Partner primates of the Communion Partners Plan, our role is to give dioceses, parishes, and provinces pastoral guidance and care…to create a strong link/bridge between the members of the Anglican Communion. The Communion Partners Plan, with its growing list of primates, bishops and rectors, is a positive way forward through the present crisis of division that we face in the Anglican Communion. As per our vow to the Windsor principles and Anglican Covenant, this allows us to strengthen a common fellowship centered on the biblical teachings of the Gospel. I am happy to offer it my support and give full respect and love to our brothers and sisters, let alone the comprehensive and objective share of ideas and views. This gives a very positive and good hope for the future of the Anglican Communion.”

– The Rt. Rev. Valentine Mokiwa, The Fifth Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Tanzania