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In October of 2004, the Lambeth Commission on Communion issued
“The Windsor Report”.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had requested the Commission to “examine and report to him... on the legal and theological implications flowing from decisions of the Episcopal Church (USA)...and the Diocese of New Westminster [Canada]...and specifically on the canonical understandings of communion, impaired and broken communion, and the ways in which provinces of the Anglican Communion may relate to one another in situations where the ecclesiastical authorities of one province feel unable ot maintain the fullness of communion with another part of the Anglican Communion.”
During the time since its release, the Windsor Report has become the most widely respected and accepted study and explication of the issues that threaten to “tear the fabric” of the Anglican Communion.
Recently, in their Communique from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, at the conclusion of their most recent meeting in February 2007, the Primates of the Communion stated (section 30 of the Communique), “For there to be healing in the life of the Communion in the interim (until the new Anglican Covenant is secured), it seems that the recommendations of the Windsor Report, as interpreted by the Primates' Statement at Dromantine, are the most clear and comprehensive principles on which our common life may be re-established.”
Click here for the text of the full Windsor Report.
Click here for the text of the Primates' Statement at Dromantine.
Click here for a “look inside the Windsor Report”, an article by Michael Edward, General Secretary of the Federation, in November 2004, shortly after the Report was released.
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