ANGLICAN CHURCH CONGRESS

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27376, 15 June 1954, Page 12

ANGLICAN CHURCH CONGRESS

Meeting To Be Held In Minneapolis

PLANS OF BISHOP OF CHRISTCHURCH

The Anglican Congress, which will be held in Minneapolis,, Minnesota, from August 4 to 13, will be the first fully representative gathering of the entire Anglican Church to be held outside Britain.

About 426 delegates, including bishops, clergy, laymen and women, are expected to attend, representing 325 dioceses throughout the world. Of these delegates, 219 will come from overseas countries including Burma, Zanzibar, Hong Kong, Tasmania, West Africa, South Africa, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. The Province of Canterbury (England) will be represented by 61 delegates and the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon will send at least 18 delegates, including its Metropolitan, the Most Rev. Arabindo Nath Mukerjee, Bishop of Calcutta.

Each of the 325 dioceses of the Anglican Communion has been invited to send three official delegates—one bishop, one priest, and one lay person.

The purpose of the congress is to confer on matters of common interest to the churches of the Anglican Communion. It will have as its theme, “The Call of God and the Mission of the Anglican Communion.” The Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, as presiding bishop of the host church, will be the presiding officer and both he and the Archbishop of Canterbury (the Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Fisher) will address the opening service in the Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium.

The Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt. Rev. A. K. Warren), Mrs Warren, the Dean of Christchurch (the Very Rev. Martin Sullivan), and Mr L. H. Wilson, the Diocesan Registrar, will be delegates to the congress and also to the second Assembly of the World Council of Churches to be held at Evanstown, near Chicago, from August 15 to 31.

The Eishop and Mrs Warren will leave Christchurch by air for England next Monday and will spend four weeks there before going to the United States.

On July 4, the Bishop will preach at Westminster Abbey, London. While in Britain the Bishop will renew associations with the Church of England clergy and lay people and will see the work of church organisations. He will confer with the Archbishop of Canterbury and others on the work of the Church in the Pacific. He will also take part in discussions with Colonial Office officials on the furtherance of .the work in the Pacific of the Lepers’ Trust Board, of which he is a member, and plans to visit the head office of the Church Missionary Society in London, as well as other missionary organisations. Bishop Warren expects to visit several colleges in the University of Oxford. as well as seeing the work of the theological colleges in Oxford and Cambridge. He will have discussions with his Commissaries, the Archdeacons of London and Manchester, on present developments in the work of the Church of England. As well as attending the Anglican Congress in Minneapolis and the second Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Evanston, the Bishop will also attend a meeting, under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of Canterbury, of the Lambeth Conference Committee, at which he will represent the Church of the Province of New Zealand.

Before returning to Christchurch early in September, Eishop Warren will take part in the consecration of a new church in Honolulu, of which the Rev. Manu Bennett, a son of the former Bishop of Waiapu, is assistant vicar.