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Membership announced for new unity, faith and order commission

Episcopal News Service. July 1, 2009 [070109-04]

Matthew Davies

The membership of the new Inter-Anglican Standing Commission for Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO), which will oversee the Anglican Communion's ecumenical affairs, was announced July 1.

The 20-member commission is to be chaired by Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi of the Anglican Church of Burundi and includes the Rev. Dr. Katherine Grieb, an Episcopal priest and professor of New Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary.

Grieb served as a member of the design group that drafted the proposed Anglican covenant, a document intended to unify the communion's provinces amid differing theological viewpoints. She is a member of the House of Bishops Theology Committee and will represent the Episcopal Church at the World Council of Churches plenary session in 2009.

Grieb is one of five women on the new IASCUFO commission, which includes one lay person.

The membership of IASCUFO was decided "following extensive consultation with the provinces of the communion around the world," according to a July 1 announcement from the Anglican Communion News Service.

IASCUFO combines the work of two earlier commissions that focused on ecumenical relations and theological and doctrinal issues.

According to the ACNS release, IASCUFO will:

• promote the deepening of Communion between the Anglican Communion and other Christian Churches and traditions;
• advise the provinces, the primates, the Anglican Consultative Council, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, on all questions of ecumenical engagement, as well as on questions of Anglican Faith and Order;
• review developments in the areas of Faith, Order and Unity in the Anglican Communion and among ecumenical partners, and give advice upon them to the churches of the Anglican Communion and to the instruments of communion; and
• assist any province with the assessment of new proposals in the areas of Unity, Faith and Order as requested.

IASCUFO will hold its inaugural meeting in December 2009 in Canterbury, England.

The members of the commission are:

• The Most Rev. Bernard Ntahoturi, Burundi (chair)
• The Rt. Rev. Dr George Titre Ande, Congo
• The Ven. Professor Dapo Asaju, Lagos State University, Nigeria
• The Rev. Canon Dr. Paul Avis, England
• The Rt. Rev. Philip D Baji, bishop of Tanga, Tanzania
• The Rev. Canon Dr. Alyson Barnett-Cowan, Canada
• The Rev. Canon Dr. John Gibaut, WCC Commission on Faith and Order
• The Rt. Rev. Howard Gregory, bishop of Montego Bay, West Indies
• The Rev. Dr. Katherine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary, The Episcopal Church
• The Rev. Canon Clement Janda, Sudan
• The Rev. Dr. Edison Muhindo Kalengyo, Uganda Christian University, Uganda
• The Rt. Rev. Victoria Matthews, bishop of Christchurch, Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia
• The Rev. Canon Dr. Charlotte Methuen, Oxford University, England
• The Rev. Dr. Simon Oliver, University of Nottingham, England
• The Rt. Rev. Professor Stephen Pickard, assistant bishop of Adelaide, Australia
• Dr. Andrew Pierce, Irish School of Ecumenics, Ireland
• The Rev. Canon Dr. Michael Nai Chiu Poon, Trinity Theological College, Singapore, South East Asia
• The Rev. Sarah Rowland Jones, Southern Africa
• The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Yang, Sheng Gong Hui (Anglican) University, Korea
• The Rt. Rev. Tito Zavala, bishop of Chile, Southern Cone

The secretary to the commission will be the director for Unity, Faith and Order at the Anglican Communion Office, a position that has yet to be filled.