Not even two weeks after the Church of England unveiled Sarah Mullally as the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, a network of conservative Anglicans has exploded what fragile harmony or consensus existed.
A statement released last week from Archbishop of Rwanda Laurent Mbanda, chair of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Gafcon), announced his group plans to take control of global Anglicanism and refound it on scriptural orthodoxy.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has for centuries served as the “first among equals” spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, a family of 42 churches worldwide that derive from the Church of England. But years of strife over same-sex relationships have culminated in last week’s statement, raising the possibility that the fraying communion may be disintegrating for good.
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