read issue - Episcopal Church in the Philippines

THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION
Archbishop of Canterbury
to be Master of Magdalene
College, Cambridge
Friday 16th March 2012
Archbishop Rowan Williams has today announced
his acceptance of the position of Master of
Magdalene College, Cambridge with effect from
January 2013. He will therefore be stepping down
from the office of Archbishop of Canterbury at the end
of December 2012.
Dr Williams’ intentions have been conveyed to
The Queen, who is Supreme Governor of the Church
of England and who formally appoints the Archbishop
of Canterbury.
Dr Williams was appointed the one hundred
and fourth Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002. He said
today: It has been an immense privilege to serve as
Archbishop of Canterbury over the past decade, and
moving on has not been an easy decision. During the
time remaining there is much to do, and I ask your
prayers and support in this period and beyond. I am
abidingly grateful to all those friends and colleagues
who have so generously supported Jane and myself
in these years, and all the many diverse parishes and
communities in the Church of England and the wider
Anglican Communion that have brought vision, hope
and excitement to my own ministry. I look forward,
with that same support and inspiration, to continuing
to serve the Church’s mission and witness as best I
can in the years ahead.
Dr Williams will continue to carry out all
the duties and responsibilities of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, both for the Church of England and the
Anglican Communion, until the end of the year.
The Crown Nominations Commission will
consider in due course the selection of a successor./
ACNS
l
Archbishop Rowan Williams
Anglican Women Theologians
Meet in Canterbury
Emergent Anglican women scholars from the
majority world and indigenous women studying
theology gathered on March 26 at the International
Study Centre at Canterbury Cathedral for a week-long
program of mentoring and strategising with the leaders
of the Global Anglican Theological Academy (GATA)
GATA was one of the outcomes of the meeting of
Anglican women theological educators organized by
the office of Theological Education in the Anglican
Communion (TEAC) in Canterbury, England, in 2009.
Supported by TEAC, the GATA initiative takes seriously
the fourth mark of mission endorsed by the Anglican
Consultative Council - the transformation of unjust
structures, and in particular, those that function within
our own Church household.
The unacceptably low numbers of women of
any age in leadership roles in theological education
and in representative roles across the Commissions
and official bodies of the Anglican Communion has
long been of concern to the founders of GATA.
GATA seeks to nurture an increasing pool of
highly qualified younger women from the majority world
who are capable of taking their places as leaders of
educational institutions and in representative bodies in
the Anglican Communion by developing an intentional
and focused program of professional mentoring and
forming a new community of intellectual theological
discourse among the participants.
The eight emergent women leaders gathered
were from New Zealand, Tonga, Malaysia, Philippines,
Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and South India. Five
are ordained and three are laywomen. Two have
received their doctoral degrees recently, five were
anglican WomEn.... on page 20
The Philippine EPISCOPALIAN 21