Search Begins for Van Culin Successor
Episcopal News Service. June 26, 1992 [92150Q]
The formal process is underway to select a successor to the Rev. Canon Samuel Van Culin who is retiring as secretary-general of the Anglican Communion in December 1994. The Most Rev. Brian Davis, primate of New Zealand, is chairing the search committee, which includes Pamela Chinnis, president of the House of Deputies of the U.S. Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Canon Roger Symon, secretary for Anglican Communion Affairs at Lambeth Palace (London). Symon is handling all enquiries and correspondence related to the search. Archbishop Davis said that "the process has begun at this early stage [because] the person appointed will have a unique opportunity to serve our communion at a critical time in its history." The search committee said that it expects to submit a short list of nominees at the first joint meeting of the primates of the Anglican Communion and the Anglican Consultative Council, scheduled for January of next year in Cape Town, South Africa. Van Culin has held his current post for nearly a decade, having previously served as executive for world mission at the Episcopal Church Center in New York.