Synod resolution embraces ACNA

Media Release
Anglican Diocese of Sydney 28/10/09

The 2009 Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney has passed a resolution affirming its desire to be in full communion with the new Anglican province, the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).

The Synod further asks the Standing Committee of the diocese to seek a General Synod motion affirming that the national church be in full communion with the ACNA.

The motion, passed on the final night of Synod, also asks General Synod Standing committee to note the publication of the Jerusalem Declaration and to encourage its study as a means to Anglican identity and cohesion.

The resolution states:

Synod "
(1)      welcomes the creation of the Province of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) under the leadership of Archbishop Bob Duncan and notes the GAFCON Primates' Council recognition of the ACNA as genuinely Anglican and its recommendation that Anglican Provinces affirm full communion with the ACNA and "

      (a)      therefore expresses its desire to be in full communion with the ACNA, and

      (b)      furthermore, requests that Standing Committee seek to have a motion brought to the General Synod affirming that the Anglican Church of Australia be in full communion with the ACNA,

(2)      welcomes Archbishop Duncan's assessment that the recent Vatican offer of a Personal Ordinariate "will not be utilised by the great majority of the Anglican Church in North America's bishops, priests, dioceses and congregations' and urges all Anglicans to reject the Vatican's proposal, and

(3)      asks the General Synod Standing Committee to "

(a)      bring the Anglican Covenant to the September 2010 General Synod in such a manner as to enable each diocesan synod to consider the document, and

          (b)      bring a motion to the General Synod noting the publication of the Jerusalem Declaration and to encourage its study as a means to Anglican identity and cohesion.