This page provides resources related to the Windsor Report of the Lambeth Commission and the responses and reactions that follow.  It is based on, and includes, material from the second “Understanding the Issues” series offered by St. Peter’s to help our parishioners understand these critical issues. 

• Further Responses to the Windsor Report
• Class Handouts
• Windsor Report
• Initial Reactions to the Report
• Official Responses
• Commission Members
• General Reactions
• Background
• Church Hierarchy
• Other Elements of Anglican Polity
• Charter of the Lambeth Commission

Further Responses to the Report

With the publication of the Windsor Report, many elements of the church are now considering what their response to the recommendations should be.  This page will pick up some of those that seem particularly important to St. Peter’s.

• 210th Annual Council of the Diocese of Virginia
• Council Concluded its work on 1/29.  It will take a few days after that to post the final resolutions and other materials.
• Bishop Lee’s Pastoral address to Diocesan Council (1/28/05)
• Reconciliation Committee Report (1/28/05)
• St. Peter’s Vestry Resolution (1/27/05)
• Church of England Bishops (1/05)
• US House of Bishops - (1/13/05)

Class Handouts:

St. Peter’s ran a series of classes on the Windsor Report.

• Background: Polity, Timeline and Lambeth Charter (10/17/2004)
• The Windsor Report: A Readers Guide (10/24/04)
• Selected Responses to the Windsor Report (10/30/04)
• Discussing the Future (11/7/04)

Note: Feel free to re-use these materials, but please credit St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Purcellville, VA as the source.

The Windsor Report

Initial Reactions to the Report

Official Responses:

• Diocese of Virginia, Bp. Lee
• Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Bp. Griswold
• Archbishop of Canterbury
• Primates attending the African Bishop’s Conference
• Abp Njongonkulu Ndungane, Primate of Southern Africa
• Abp Andrew Hutchison, Primate of Canada
• Abp Peter Akinola Primate of Nigeria
• Abp Peter Jensen, Archbishop of Sydney

Commission Members:

• Bp N.T. Wright, England
• Christianity Today Interview
• Fulcrum Article
• Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, Canada
• Bp Mark Dyer, USA (audio only)
• Abp Bernard Malango, Primate of Central Africa
• Abp Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales

General Reactions:

• The Anglican Communion Network and American Anglican Council Respond to the Windsor Report 2004
• The Witness: Institution over Inspiration?

Background

The Church Hierarchy

• The Diocese of Virginia
• The Episcopal Church
• The Anglican Communion

Other Elements of Anglican Polity

• The Anglican Communion Network - Operates within the Episcopal Church as a “Church within a church”
• The Anglican Mission in America - One of several groups of Anglican Churches in the US under Episcopal oversight from provinces outside of the US.
• The Anglican Communion in Canada - Anglican churches in Canada under Episcopal oversight from provinces outside of Canada

Charter of the Lambeth Commission

• Official Charter

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