DIOCESAN GLOBAL GATHERING – LAMBETH ADDRESS and UPDATE
Bishop Ian shared Lambeth updates and memories at our Diocesan Global Gathering on 4th September 2022
GREETING from BISHOP MARINEZ in Amazonia
HIGHLIGHT VIDEO FROM THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE 2022
Click here to see the highlight video from the conference.
See more highlights from our Diocesan Global Gathering here.
DAILY UPDATES FROM THE CONFERENCE
Bishop Ian and the SEC Province provided regular updates on social media from the Lambeth Conference which took place from 26th July to 8th August 2022
See them below
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Lambeth Conference – Day 2
At our Retreat Day in Canterbury Cathedral we heard a challenging address from Prof Esther Mombo (of Kenya, and once a member of the SEC): “ We should recognise … our complicity in perpetuating the spread of the virus of hegemony in all its manifestations: racial injustice, capitalism and economic inequalities, and sexual and gender based violence, to name but a few … The world is waiting and watching. They wait expectantly for a Church that looks like the faith it professes.”
Grace and peace, Bp Ian
A day of retreat and prayer, in a holy and beautiful place. During the day I’ll be praying through our Diocesan Cycle of Prayer (available on our website), and if you can please pray with me for clergy and congregations.
DAY 1
Bishop Ian
Lambeth Conference – Day 1
After the Welcome session with the Archbishop of Canterbury (pictured below), Bishops met in the groups we had been meeting with by Zoom during the past year to prepare for the Conference.
My group, drawn from countries as different as Canada, USA, South Africa, South Sudan, and Scotland, agreed that we want these 2 weeks to be about dialogue not debate, and about understanding the difference between being in Communion and being in agreement (something the world as well as the Church needs to understand). We don’t need to agree or implement ‘calls’ or ‘resolutions,’ we need to help each other understand what living the Gospel means in our very different contexts.
I met many old and new friends today, including among others Bishop Keerthisiri Fernando (Sri Lanka) and Bishop Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy (Willesden, England), pictured below, together with the Welcome Session of the Conference.
Grace and peace, Bp Ian
PILGRIMAGE TO CANTERBURY FOR LAMBETH
PRE-CONFERENCE
