2025 Global Vision Tour

In a recent pastoral letter to the Anglican Churches in Tasmania, Bishop Richard wrote:

“On 16 October, the Primates of the Gafcon movement released a statement about the Anglican Communion. In this statement they announced a ‘reordering of the Anglican Communion’ centred around the Bible. 

Gafcon has been calling the Instruments of Communion (the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates’ Meeting) to repentance for their drift from historic biblical Christian teaching since 2008. In the absence of such repentance and in light of the continued direction of the Canterbury Communion they have decided that it is time for decisive action. 

The Gafcon Primates Council have now officially rejected the Instruments of Communion, saying that they have failed to protect the doctrine and discipline of the church, and have called for a reordered ‘fellowship of autonomous provinces’, bound by our Reformation Formularies. They called for like-minded Provinces to remove historic references to being in communion with the See of Canterbury, and to also withdraw from the Instruments of Communion. This new ‘Global Anglican Communion’ will be a fellowship of those who affirm the Jerusalem Declaration, and will have a Council of Primates with one elected to preside over its meetings.”