“The Church of England has chosen to break communion with those provinces who remain faithful to the historic biblical faith,” said the statement.
Anglican leaders rejected the leadership of the archbishop of Canterbury in a scathing letter after the Church of England voted earlier this month to offer blessings for same-sex couples.
The archbishops claimed the Church of England “has departed from the historic faith passed down from the Apostles by this innovation in the liturgies of the Church and her pastoral practice,” and drifted into “false teaching.” It is therefore “disqualified” from being the leader of global Anglicanism, the letter stated.
The statement was signed by GSFA chair Archbishop Justin Badi of South Sudan, along with the archbishops of Chile, the Indian Ocean, Congo, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Uganda, Sudan, Alexandria and Melanesia.The archbishops said that they would continue to work to “reset the Communion, and to ensure that the re-set Communion is marked by reform and renewal.”Only then will the Anglican Church as a whole be able to be God’s channel of light and transformation in a dark and broken world,” they added.
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