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lAst ProvinCiAl visit: PAPuA nEw guinEA Dr Rowan Williams’ last Provincial visit before he steps down as archbishop of Canterbury will be to The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. archbishop rowan, accompanied by his wife Jane, will travel to various anglican dioceses including Port moresby. there they will see church missions and projects, including an HIV/AIDS education and prevention initiative run by the anglican StopaiDS Centre at Boroko. they will also visit the diocese of Popondota, home to the largest anglican membership in the Province. While there the Archbishop will of-
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Abp rowan’s wife, Jane, will accompany him to Papua new guinea
ficiate at ceremonies including the inauguration of a local hospital, the opening of the melanesian Brotherhood headquarters and a visit to a local school. the couple will also call at Dogura, where the anglican mission in Papua New Guinea began. there they will see historic build-
ings such as the Cathedral and the Anglican Newton Theological College. they end their visit back in Port moresby before heading on to Auckland, New Zealand, to attend the 15th anglican Consultative Council which takes place between 27 October and 7 November.
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EvAngElism And ChurCh growth thinking goEs onlinE
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anglicans and episcopalians worldwide are sharing their experiences and insights of church growth and evangelism online after an official Communion project went digital. the evangelism and Church Growth initiative (eCGi) was launched at the 2009 ACC meeting to promote evangelism and church growth primarily through sharing experiences, resources, prayer and strategies among anglican Communion members. the project’s Core Group team launched the Anglican Witness Facebook page to do just
that. more than 500 people from almost every Province in the Communion are signed up. “What is really exciting is the way that people can engage with each other. Someone in one Province can ask about resources for a particular type of work and rapidly receive replies from a variety of different people in others,” said Stuart Buchanan, an anglican Communion Office staff member who supports the Core Group. “it really makes us feel that we are sharing in God’s mission as part of the body of Christ.”
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nEw PrimAtEs For wEst AFriCA And irElAnd this September, two Provinces of the anglican Communion elected new Primates, the anglican Church of the Province of West africa elected the rt revd Dr Solomon tilewa Johnson as its ninth archbishop and Primate. He succeeds the most revd Justice Akrofi who has been in post since 2003. the synod also agreed a proposal to adopt a constitutional change that would see the creation of two internal provinces with two archbishops, in the style of the Church of england. the
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two new internal provinces are the Province of Ghana, with the rt revd Daniel Yinka Saro as its archbishop, and archbishop Johnson will head up the Province of West Africa as well as acting as Primate. the most revd Dr richard Clarke, Bishop of meath and Kildare, has been elected archbishop of armagh and Primate of all ireland by the House of Bishops of the Church of ireland, following the retirement of Archbishop Alan Harper on 30 September.
anglican world issue 129 september 2012
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the rt revd dr solomon tilewa Johnson and the most revd dr richard Clarke