Province IX Region Convenes Assembly
Episcopal News Service. October 10, 1990 [90266E]
ARENSA, the Spanish acronym for Regional Episcopal Association of Northern South America, one of the four regions of the Episcopal Church's Province IX, held its first assembly in five years, September 5-6, in Quito, Ecuador. Delegates representing the dioceses of Venezuela, Colombia, Central Ecuador, and Littoral Ecuador pledged to renew regional cooperation and to work toward becoming an autonomous province within the Anglican Communion. The assembly also addressed a letter to Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning of the Episcopal Church, charging that the Episcopal Synod of America had intruded "in the internal affairs of the church in the area, especially in the diocese of Colombia." Bishop Bernardo Merino of Colombia was unanimously elected ARENSA's president.