Overview
- GAFCON says its Global Primates Council will elect a chairman to function as primus inter pares, with the result due Thursday.
- The move is intended to replace the symbolic leadership role traditionally associated with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- More than 400 bishops, clergy and lay delegates are attending the Abuja gathering, with organizers stressing they are asserting an orthodox core rather than quitting the Communion.
- A separate reform proposal from the historic Communion would make governance less Canterbury-centric and is slated for Anglican Consultative Council review this summer.
- Fault lines include same-sex marriage, ordination of openly LGBTQ+ clergy and women, and protests over the Church of England’s selection of Sarah Mullally, as GAFCON’s Laurent Mbanda has vowed that the Communion will be reordered.