Hull has a lot to commend it, however it isn’t famed for being a spot the place church historical past is made. Which will all be about to alter.
On Friday, in Hull, with the rain pouring down on the steel roof of the church constructing, three males had been consecrated as bishops for the Anglican Network in Europe. Women and men had travelled from all corners of the globe to be there.
“We’re right here to say, ‘you aren’t alone’, and as representatives of nearly all of Anglicans within the Anglican Communion, we recognise what the Lord is doing on this rising province,” stated Archbishop Foley Seashore, the Primate of the Anglican Church in North America.
And Archbishop Foley was not alone. The Chair of the Gafcon Primates Council was joined in Hull by Archbishop Laurent Mbanda, Primate of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, and Archbishop Henry Ndukuba, Primate of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion and 5 different bishops from all over the world.
These males all boycotted this summer season’s Lambeth Convention, the standard assembly of worldwide Anglican bishops referred to as by the Archbishop of Canterbury, quoting the prophet Amos in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, “two can’t stroll collectively until they’re agreed” (Amos 3:3).
However right here they had been in Hull, consecrating new bishops.
The Anglican Community in Europe could also be in its infancy, however it’s rapidly gaining credibility as an genuine and viable residence for historic, orthodox, devoted, Biblical, confessional Anglicans throughout Europe.
Lots of those that attended the consecration had been to collect once more within the morning to listen to what the Anglican Community in Europe might need to supply ought to the Church of England select to comply with the progressive agenda of the Scottish Episcopal Church and Church in Wales.
5 years in the past, Bishop Andy Traces was consecrated as a missionary bishop to Europe. He now has three assistant bishops, Bishop Tim Davies, Bishop Ian Ferguson and Bishop Lee McMunn.
Of their current Communiqué, the Gafcon Primates gave them a transparent process: “to interact in church planting and to look after these clergy and congregations who’ve dedicated to advertise biblical religion, within the context of different church buildings who’re more and more rebelling towards the clear instructing of Scripture.”
Time will inform as as to whether that is the beginning of one thing that modifications the face of the Anglican Church in Europe.
Archbishop Mbanda actually thinks it’s, telling the brand new bishops that, “The Lord wants you at a important time within the historical past of the church” to supply a substitute for the “polluted instructing of in the present day”.
Maybe it isn’t a coincidence that the consecrations befell in Hull. In spite of everything, Hull’s most well-known son is William Wilberforce, who as soon as stated, “What a distinction it will be if our system of morality had been based mostly on the Bible as an alternative of the requirements devised by cultural Christians.”
