Final Post and Thank You

Over the course of the last several weeks, an overwhelming amount of support for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh and Bishop Robert Duncan has been directed to this site. Thank you for taking the time to share you comments and prayers for Bishop Duncan and all of us here in the diocese. Though this site will no longer be updated, any messages directed to the contact email address above will be forwarded to their intended recipients.

Yours in Christ,

-Shawn

GAFCON Primates Council Speaks in Support of Bishop Duncan

The fact, timing and manner of the action taken by the American House of Bishops toward Bishop Bob Duncan of Pittsburgh has filled us with dismay. He is a Bishop in good standing in the Anglican Communion, and is guilty only of guarding his people from false teaching and corrupt behaviour as he promised to do. Once more the upholders of the orthodox faith are made to suffer at the hands of those who have introduced new teachings.

However, the action has also had the effect of clarifying matters even further. It is now impossible to believe that the exhortations of the Lambeth Conference and the Windsor Continuation Group will be heeded. No Pastoral Forum has been established. We remain convinced that the faithful Anglicans of North America need to have their own Province recognised by the Communion as a whole. We are determined to stand with Bishop Duncan and those who, like him, have protested in the name of God against the unscriptural innovations which have caused such divisions amongst us.

In the absence of other substantive provision from the historic structures of the Communion, the Primates’ Council gives its full support to Archbishop Greg Venables in receiving Bishop Duncan as a Bishop in good standing in the Province of the Southern Cone.

Editor's Note: Members of the Primates Council are Archbishops Peter Akinola of Nigeria, Justice Akrofi of West Africa, Emmanuel Kolini of Rwanda, Valentino Mokiwa of Tanzania, Benjamin Nzmibi of Kenya, Henry Orombi of Uganda and Gregory Venables of The Southern Cone. They lead approximately 35 million of the world's active Anglican Christians.