The first woman to be elected as an Anglican bishop in South America has been consecrated. Bishop Marinez Bassotto will lead the Diocese of Amazon
Work began on a new, bigger library at Lambeth Palace Friday, April 20, when the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby symbolically “broke ground” for the
Parliamentarians and senior religious leaders from 11 Commonwealth countries gathered at Lambeth Palace, the London official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for two days
The recently discovered bodies of 157 victims of the Rwandan genocide have been laid to rest in a former Anglican church, alongside the 36,700 victims
The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, held a meeting April 11 with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the secretary general of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon.
Archbishop Ron Cutler has given his support to a campaign against the lifting of a moratorium on fracking in Nova Scotia.
Provisional plans for a season of repentance and prayer across the Anglican Communion next year have been put forward by a task group set up after the Primates’ Meeting in 2016.
The theme for the Lambeth Conference in 2020 is to be “God’s Church for God’s World: walking, listening and witnessing together.” Details have been announced
The ecumenical body representing churches in Korea—including the Anglican Church of Korea—have welcomed news that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has agreed to
The two existing primates of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia (ANZP) have announced that the province’s third primate will be Bishop Don Tamihere, currently bishop of Tairawhiti.
The US-based Episcopal Church’s Diocese of Pittsburgh and the breakaway Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh have announced a “comprehensive agreement” over the future of nine parishes which seceded from the diocese in October 2008.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has led tributes from Anglican leaders to the iconic U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, who died today at his home in North Carolina, aged 99.
Education and health ministries provided by the Diocese of Jerusalem could be at risk if the Jerusalem Municipality goes ahead with plans to make churches pay Arnona, or municipal taxes.
The primates of the Anglican Communion should have a greater say in the appointments of future Archbishops of Canterbury, the current Archbishop, Justin Welby, said Thursday, February 8.
A group of 33 recently appointed and elected bishops are spending a week at Canterbury Cathedral—the Anglican Communion’s mother church—as part of a global induction
The Anglican Alliance, which helps to co-ordinate Anglican churches and agencies “to work for a world free of poverty and injustice,” has launched a year-long
The Compass Rose Society, the charitable foundation that provides substantial support for the work of the Anglican Consultative Council and the international ministry of the
Primate of Southern Africa and Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba has paid tribute to the legendary trumpeter and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Masekela, who died
The Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil—the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil (IEAB) has elected its first female bishop, some 34 years after the province first paved the way for women to serve in all three orders of ministry.
A working group established by the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is recommending that bishops should be able to decide whether to authorize a service of blessing for same-gender couples, using provisions already within the province’s canons for “a non-formulary service.”
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