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• 4 New Bishops Elected to Serve CANA
• Modified Primatial Vicar Plan to Be Proposed to Bishops
• Quincy, Pittsburgh to Reconsider National Church Ties
• California Supreme Court to Review Church Property Dispute
   

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4 New Bishops Elected to Serve CANA
Source:  CANA
Date:  September 13, 2007

(NOTE:  The American Anglican Council staff would like to congratulate bishops-elect Ames, Anderson, Fagbamiye, and Kanu. The AAC staff is humbled and at the same time overjoyed to see its own President & CEO, David Anderson, as one of the bishops-elect. We pray and will continue to pray for these and all our faithful leaders. - Robert Lundy, AAC Communications Assistant)

The House of Bishops of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) met in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria, on the 12th day of September 2007.  They received a report from the Rt. Rev’d Martyn Minns, Missionary Bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), a missionary initiative of the Church of Nigeria in the USA.  Acknowledging the significant growth of CANA that is taking place in the USA, the House of Bishops considered a request for additional bishops to further the work of CANA and the extension of God’s Kingdom.

After the meeting, the Primate, the Most Rev’d Peter J. Akinola, announced the election of four suffragan bishops and appointed them to serve in the USA.  The bishops-elect are the Rev’d Canon Roger Ames (Akron, OH), the Rev’d Canon David Anderson (Atlanta, GA), the Ven. Amos Fagbamiye (Indianapolis, IN), and the Rev’d Canon Nathan Kanu (Oklahoma City, OK).  The consecrations will take place in the USA before the end of 2007, at a date and place yet to be determined.  These four bishops-elect will join Missionary Bishop Martyn Minns and Suffragan Bishop David Bena in providing an indigenous ecclesiastical structure for faithful Anglicans in this country.

CANA currently consists of approximately 60 congregations and 80 clergy in 20 states.  About a quarter of the congregations are primarily expatriate Nigerians.  CANA was established in 2005 to provide a means by which Anglicans living in the USA, who were alienated by the actions and decisions of The Episcopal Church, could continue to live out their faith without compromising their core convictions.  CANA is part of the Common Cause partnership that includes representatives of more than 250 Anglican congregations that are connected to the rest of the Anglican Communion, a worldwide fellowship of some 70 million, through various pastoral and missionary initiatives 

Modified Primatial Vicar Plan to Be Proposed to Bishops
Source:   The Living Church
Date:  September 13, 2007
By: The Rev. George Conger

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will offer a revamped primatial vicar plan to the House of Bishops at their meeting next week in New Orleans, sources who have been briefed on the broad outline of the new proposal told The Living Church.

The plan is said to call for a nominee of the Presiding Bishop’s to exercise delegated pastoral authority over those dioceses that had requested alternate primatial oversight from Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams following the 2006 General Convention.

Read the rest of the article here.

Quincy, Pittsburgh to Reconsider National Church Ties
Source:   The Living Church ,  Diocese of Pittsburgh ,  Diocese of Qunicy
Date:  September 11, 2007

The dioceses of Pittsburgh and Quincy announced plans Sept. 11 to reconsider their ties to The Episcopal Church during their annual convention meetings later this fall.

The proposed changes to the Pittsburgh constitution include provisions to welcome any extra-territorial “parish formed and desiring union with the diocese” and “the Diocese of Pittsburgh shall have membership in such province of the Anglican Communion as is by diocesan canon specified.”

Read the rest of the article  here. 

California Supreme Court to Review Church Property Dispute
Source:   St. James Anglican Church (Via E-mail)  
Date:  September 12, 2007

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. –  The California Supreme Court today unanimously granted the petitions by St. James Anglican Church, Newport Beach, All Saints’ Church, Long Beach, and St. David’s Anglican Church, North Hollywood, to review the Fourth Appellate District decision of Episcopal Church Cases.

Read the rest of the press release  here.