As those who share in a deep concern for Anglican orthodoxy and where it is being eroded [and who] are actively committed to practical steps towards its restoration, we wish to comment upon the recent consecrations in Singapore of two bishops for ministry in the United States.

We regret that pressures upon traditionalists within the Episcopal Church in the U.S. should have accumulated to the point at which two primates, whom we hold in esteem, felt compelled to take this present action on their own initiative and contrary to what was agreed in a meeting in which they shared in Kampala. We are disappointed that our friends acted against our clear advice and we cannot approve such a step as they have taken at this time.

We continue to emphasise the vital importance of reaffirming orthodox teaching and safeguarding our historic disciplines through our Anglican instruments of unity and our respective provincial authorities. Our prayer is that the Primates in the March meeting in Portugal may be able to deal wisely and effectively with the underlying causes of this current disorder.

Richard Harry Goodhew, Archbishop of Sydney
Donald Leo Mtetemela, Archbishop of Tanzania
Maurice W. Sinclair, Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone

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