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Virginia bishop calls Nigerian election an 'affront'
Friday, June 30, 2006
The Rt. Rev. Peter Lee, Bishop of Virginia
[Episcopal News
Service] Virginia Bishop Peter
Lee has written to his diocese to say that
the June 28 election of the Rev. Martyn
Minns, rector of Truro Church in Fairfax,
Virginia, as a bishop of the Church of
Nigeria with oversight of the Convocation
of Anglicans in North America is "an
affront to the traditional, orthodox
understanding of Anglican Provincial
Autonomy."
"Archbishop Akinola acknowledges as
much in his letter to Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams," Lee wrote.
Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola
founded the convocation (CANA) in April
2005 to, he said, minister to "all those
who can no longer find their spiritual
home" in the Episcopal Church and the
Anglican Church of Canada.
Lee wrote that it is impossible to honor
Akinola's request that Minns remain
rector of Truro Church while serving as a
Nigerian bishop.
In the letter posted on the diocesan website, Lee also wrote that a June 29 news article in the
Washington Times was wrong to report that Minns and the leaders of The Falls Church, Falls
Church, Virginia, want to lead members out of the diocese.
The full text of Lee's letter is available at http://www.thediocese.net/press/pressroom.shtml
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_76484_ENG_HTM.htm (1 of 2) [8/17/2006 10:34:13 PM]
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