[Anglican Journal — Church of Canada] The church should stop to consider how the work done by General Synod or the ecclesiastical provinces would be replaced before it responds to a suggestion by a primatial commission to eliminate one of those levels of governance, Archbishop Anne Germond, acting primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, told members of Council of General Synod Nov. 9.
The suggestion is one of a set of seven intentionally provocative statements or “hypotheses” from the commission, the formal name of which is Reimagining the Church: a Primate’s Commission on Proclaiming the Gospel in the 21st Century.
Germond, who is also the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Ontario, described intensive work the province has done in recent years on theological education as an example of a provincial contribution to the church.
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