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Letters from 2 to 9 October 2005

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In reading your page on "continuing churches" I note that you define those churches as ones that are continuing with traditions no longer observed by the churches that remain in communion with Canterbury. How would you categorize the Church in Nigeria then? Or the Church in the Southern Cone, or Singapore? They seem to be continuing with practices abandoned by Canterbury. Will the official Anglican Communion eventually come to be just ECUSA, the Anglican Church of Canada and the Church of England?

A note of interest (to me anyway) is our second Province in India which has recently won several court cases and reclaimed several large church buildings by being recognized as the official successor to the Church of England in that country. We were also recently recognized by the Columbian government as the official Anglican entity in that country. I know that this is news that would lower the morale of those still remaining in the "official communion" and of course you will not report or comment on it, but I thought you ought to know.

In Christ and with best wishes,

John Roddy+

The Rev. John Roddy
Provincial Public Relations Officer Anglican Catholic Church
St. Hilda of Whitby ACC
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
anglicancatholicpriest@yahoo.com
8 October 2005

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