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Global Anglican Future Press conference: Remarks by Archbishop Peter Jensen

Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, Dr Peter Jensen, chairman of the organising committee addresses British press reports that claimed Gafcon leaders were planning ‘schism’. Press play to hear.

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“What the Americans did in 2003 and what the Canadians did was to rip the communion. If we’re talking about schism and the breakup of the communion – that’s where it starts and that is where the responsibility is. What GAFCON is doing is saying that given that new state of affairs, how now can we live together and how can we sustain the highest level of communion and work well together. My way of putting it is to say that the British Empire has now ceased to be and the British commonwealth of nations has come into existence or the nuclear family has turned into an extended family. This is the new reality. I don’t hear GAFCON saying or GAFCON being a further cause for schism.”

“We’re looked forward to this immensely. Already the gathering of the initial team has been an extraordinary, bracing occasion and one which we have enjoyed thoroughly. I am looking forward to an extraordinarily interesting and rather exciting conference I have to say and you may be interested to know that I personally, speaking for myself now, personally wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury just a couple of weeks ago to assure him of my prayers for Lambeth and for the successful outcome of the Lambeth conference and he has now written to me and assured me of his prayers for us and his prayers for a successful outcome of this conference as well. So I think that’s worth knowing when we talk a great deal about things like schism and so forth.”

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