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Tanzania praised on development targets
2007-03-08 09:28:56
By Guardian Reporter
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams on Tuesday released a pastoral letter which commends the work done in Tanzania in relation to the Millennium Development Goals and proposals on Theological Education.
At the same time, he said that generosity and patience would be required for the Anglican Communion in the days ahead.
The pastoral letter was sent to the Primates of the Anglican Communion was released by the Episcopal News Service yesterday.
Dr Williams says that the recent meeting in Tanzania had been difficult, but that the issues had been properly aired.
`It was far from being an easy few days, but there was a great deal of honesty in our conversation, and a direct facing of the tensions that we still find in the life of the Communion.`
The primates’ decision to address some questions to the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church shouldn`t be understood as bypassing the church’s structures, says the letter:`To address these requests to the American House of Bishops is not to ignore the polity of The Episcopal Church, but to acknowledge that the bishops have a key role, acknowledged in the Constitution of that church, in authorising liturgies within their dioceses and in giving consent to the election of candidates for Episcopal order,` he say in the letter.
Dr Williams expressed the hope that the proposed Pastoral Council could be developed quickly, as it would help in the development of pastoral provision for those in The Episcopal Church seeking alternative pastoral oversight.
`It is my hope that if such a Pastoral Council Will be an appropriate body through which the work of healing and reconciliation for which we all look may be robustly carried forward, and an account given to the rest of the Communion on the working out of the Windsor Process`.
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