Anglican Primates Meet in Jerusalem
Diocesan Press Service. May 10, 1966 [43-9]
Christian unity was the principal topic of a five-day Lambeth consultative conference presided over by Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and attended by 19 archbishops and metropolitans of the Anglican communion. The meeting was held at St. George's College, Jerusalem, April 25 to 29.
Dr. Ramsey discussed plans for unification of Protestant Churches in England, Canada, the United States and some Asian and African countries. He said plans for unions of Anglicans, Presbyterians and Methodists in Ceylon were "very far advanced," while plans in the United States involving Anglicans and Protestant and Evangelical Churches were still in "elementary stages."
At a news conference, Dr. Ramsey said the Eastern Orthodox have agreed to the establishment of a "pan-Orthodox, pan-Anglican theological commission" to discuss doctrinal questions.
At another press conference following the close of the conference, Dr. Ramsey said he trusted that the day of inter-Church unity will come, "but there are still obstacles." He did not elaborate on the obstacles.
Presiding Bishop Hines was installed as an honorary episcopal canon in the stall of Mount Hermon within the sanctuary of the Collegiate Church of St. George the Martyr (commonly called St. George's Cathedral), during the meeting. Among the honorary canons, the Presiding Bishop is the only metropolitan who holds office ex officio. Bishop Hines is the only American ever to have been installed in person.
At the same service, the Presiding Bishop of the Church in Brazil, the Most Rev. Egmont M. Krischke, and the recently elected Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, the Most Rev. Erica Sabiti, were also installed as episcopal canons.