There will not be a formal schism in the Anglican Communion, according to the Most Rev David Moxon, Bishop of Waikato and senior bishop of the New Zealand Diocese and co-presiding bishop in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.The Archbishop’s comments came after he was speaking after a service in Lichfield Cathedral in which the Diocese of Lichfield signed a new strategic partnership with the Diocese of Singapore and renewed its existing agreements with the dioceses of Qu’Appelle in Canada; Matlosane in South Africa and the dioceses of West Malaysia, and Kuching on Malaysian Borneo.
He said: “I was profoundly moved by what I saw: different dimensions of the Anglican Communion here in Lichfield Cathedral covenanting together because they want to covenant together. And the future of the Anglican Communion as a whole, I think, could learn from this evening. People forming bonds of affection because they really want to. And the Anglican Communion as a whole I think will continue its life and reinvigorate itself because it can celebrate, as it did this evening, affection and the bonds that Christ brings us together in.
“I think even as recently as the last couple of weeks we have not heard a move for formal schism. But what we need is not discussions about schism or not, we need discussions about why we need each other. You know, an eye can not say to another part of the body ‘I do not need you’. And what we have seen this evening in Lichfield Cathedral is celebrating our need of each other as members of one body, literally, hands, feet, eye, needing each other to be the body. That’s the bottom line, that’s the plain truth.
“And the more we celebrate that and pray into that the more red-blooded our Anglican Communion will be. So I don’t see formal schism lying ahead so long as we have evenings like this one.”
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