By accessing www.lambethconference.org one can have the details and preparatory papers of the forthcoming Lambeth Conference at one's finger-tips. This website includes the official documentation of the 1997 St Augustine's Seminar. The seminar, a major international gathering of Anglican bishops and theologians, produced working papers on some of the Conference themes.
23 April 1998
Marriage in a changing society and the effects of poverty on family life are just two issues which will be looked at by the bishops' spouses in their programme during the Lambeth Conference.
23 April 1998
Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, who devoted much of his life to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, died today. Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in London today on hearing of his death, "The world is a better place for having had a Trevor Huddleston. Thanks be to God for this incredible stalwart."
20 April 1998
The Rt Revd F Clayton Matthews, Suffragan Bishop of Virginia, has been appointed as Director of the Office of Pastoral Development in the USA.
17 April 1998
The papers, working group documents, and statements from the Fifth International Anglican Liturgical Consultation, which met in Dublin, Eire, in 1995, were published over Easter. These papers provide a helpful resource for those bishops taking part in the forthcoming Lambeth Conference. Details about the content and availability of the papers are given below:
17 April 1998
It is my great joy to extend the warm greetings of the Anglican Communion to the bishops, clergy and people of the Constitutive Synod of the Anglican Church of the Central Region of the Americas assembled in San José Costa Rica.
17 April 1998
The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion has requested that all Churches of the Communion of the world wide Anglican Episcopal family of Churches observe the feast of Pentecost and the nine days preceding it is a special time of prayer for the forthcoming Lambeth Conference 1998. The Conference, an international gathering of over 800 bishops, will be held this July in Canterbury.
08 April 1998
(LWI) The Anglican and Lutheran Churches of northern Europe will address the challenges facing Europe together. Church leaders of both confessions met in Turku, Finland, March 12-17, the first meeting of the Porvoo Communion since the solemn ratification of the Porvoo Declaration in the autumn of 1996.
08 April 1998
Episcopal appointments from around the Communion.
23 March 1998
This has been a precious opportunity for frank and intensive dialogue between religious leaders and development experts drawn from nine of the world's religious faiths, and leading staff of the World Bank. We are profoundly grateful to all the participants. What has drawn us together is a deep moral concern for the future of human well-being and dignity. We cannot accept the suffering of so many millions of people around the world.
10 March 1998