Carey Reconvenes Eames Commission
Episcopal News Service. October 7, 1993 [93173I]
At the request of Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, the Most Rev. Robert Eames, Primate of All Ireland, will reconvene the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Communion and Women in the Episcopate (the Eames Commission) in London on December 13-17. The purpose of the meeting will be to review and assess the developments in the Anglican Communion since the commission produced their last report in 1990 and to examine what pastoral guidelines can be suggested which will encourage the greatest degree of communion between provinces. The establishment of the commission was the direct result of a resolution at the 1988 Lambeth Conference which read, in part, "That each province respect the decision and attitudes of other provinces in the ordination or consecration of women to the episcopate, without such respect necessarily indicating acceptance of the principles involved, maintaining the highest possible degree of communion with provinces which differ." The results of the Eames Commission study will be passed on to the Inter Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission as material for its ongoing work on interdependence.