Eileen Carey, wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, has interviewed 21 spouses of Anglican bishops from all over the world about what it is like to be married to a bishop. These interviews are published for the first time in the book The Bishop and I.
20 July 1998
Over 600 bishops' spouses gathered for the opening service for the Spouses' Programme on the evening of July 19. The spouses were welcomed by Eileen Carey, wife of Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, who stressed the planners' hope that the spouses find the conference to be an opportunity for fellowship and for deepening their faith commitments.
20 July 1998
With gold and blue banners snapping in the breeze, school children waving and the Canterbury Cathedral's 14-bell peal tolling, the 13th Lambeth Conference officially opened Sunday morning as 750 cassock-clad bishops processed into the cathedral to celebrate the first Eucharist of their three-week gathering.
19 July 1998
I express my deepest appreciation to his Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury, for giving me this rare and awesome honour of preaching at this Opening Service of Lambeth 1998
19 July 1998
The 1998 Lambeth Conference gathered Saturday night in a multi-lingual liturgy of welcome and introduction that filled the two plenary spaces with prayer, song, and housekeeping details.
18 July 1998
Anglican World magazine, the international publication of the Anglican Communion, is a "great strength" for Christians in South India, who constitute only two percent of the local population, said the Rev. J. Prabhakara Rao, an Anglican Consultative Council representative attending the Lambeth Conference.
18 July 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 June 1998
The Lambeth Conference, a meeting of bishops of the world-wide Anglican Communion, is held every 10 years. The next meeting is scheduled to take place over three weeks from 19th July to 8th August 1998, when some 800 bishops plus about 600 spouses from many parts of the world will meet together at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
20 May 1998
As the Anglican bishops of the world gather at the University of Kent and Canterbury Cathedral in England for the Lambeth Conference of 1998, their deliberations over the question of international debt will be shaped by the impending Jubilee Year of 2000.
19 May 1998
Stretching back to 1867 when an archbishop of Canterbury first invited the world's Anglican bishops to meet, Lambeth Conferences have played a key role in the Anglican Communion's sense of historic continuity. But they have also marked the milestones of profound historical change for an evolving, international church.
18 May 1998