ANGLICAN CONVENTION

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1946, Page 8

ANGLICAN CONVENTION

RESOLUTION ON CHURCH UNION

P.A. WELLLINGTON, May 16. A convention of Anglican priests, representative of six of New Zealand's seven dioceses, has' been held at Lower Hutt during the past three days. It passed the following resolution: “With, all Christians we deplore disunity and pray with our Lord that they all may be one. The first step lo reunion is a knowledge of our own position and recognition of tlm real differences and we recommend careful and sympathetic study of the tenets of the Orthodox, Roman and Non-Episcopal communions. We encourage those separate from ourselves to make a like study.” The Archimandrite of the Greek Church in New Zealand, the Very Rev. Father Chrysostum Beynazoglu. addressing the convention on the relations of the Greek and Anglican churches, said that the affection the Greek church held for the Anglican church had existed ever since a Greek, Theodore of Taraus, became Archbishop of Canterbury. The convention recommended that it would make for greater unity with the Anglican communion if the Anglican bishops were less hampered by administration and free to exercise their purely pastoral oversight.