Primates Meeting Summarized
Episcopal News Service. May 11, 1989 [89094]
LARNACA, Cyprus (DPS, May 11) -- Anglican unity. social issues, ecumenism, and evangelism were highlights at the meeting of Anglican Primates held at Larnaca, Cyprus, April 26 - May 3, 1989.
The Primates, who are the heads of the 27 autonomous provinces of the Anglican Communion, discussed the doctrinal and practical divisions that had arisen over the ordination of women, particularly since a woman had been consecrated bishop in the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. With one modification they endorsed a report from a commission that had been established to examine how the highest possible degree of communion could be maintained between those provinces that do and do not ordain women.
The commission made a specific proposal where there was sharp division within a province and also recognized that the matter had an important ecumenical dimension.