Conservative Anglican prelates are planning to gather next year at a meeting that will provide an alternative to the Lambeth Conference, the London Daily Telegraph reports. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has urged all Anglican bishops to attend the Lambeth Conference, a meeting that is organized each decade to bring together Anglican prelates from all around the world.
But some conservative bishops have already announced plans to boycott that meeting. Plans for the Lambeth Conference have been troubled by arguments about which bishops should be invited to attend.
Conservative prelates, especially in Africa's growing Anglican churches, refuse to accept the inclusion of openly homosexual bishops.
Liberals have said that the Archbishop of Canterbury should not invite the conservative American bishops consecrated by visiting African prelates.
A "counter-Lambeth" would be another clear indication of apparently irreconcilable differences among the Anglican bishops, and a blow to the efforts by Dr. Williams to hold the fractious communion together. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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