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Facts about "The Windsor Report" on Communion
The report was released Monday, October 18, 2004

The Lambeth Commission on Communion, formed to mediate international controversy over the Communion's first openly gay bishop, has released its recommendations. The full 93-page report is available here: http://windsor2004.anglicancommunion.org/windsor2004/downloads/index.cfm

EDOW: Windsor Report calls for expressions of regret (from the Nov. '04 Washington Window)
Episcopal News Service: Windsor Report offers recommendations, calls for reconciliation
- - -*This article includes a summary of the recommendations in the report
Religion & Ethics: Lambeth Commission Report
Anglican Journal: 'In the end the report was something that I could live with'

Responses to the report:


Bishop of Washington
John Bryson Chane
Statement


Presiding Bishop
Frank Griswold
Statement
Letter prior to release

Archbishop of Canterbury
Rowan Williams
Statement


American member of the Lambeth Commission
Mark Dyer
Statement


Primate of the Church of Southern Africa
Njongonkulu Ndungane
Statement


Archbishop of Wales
Barry Morgan
Statement


Primate of the Church of Canada
Andrew Hutchison
Statement

Primate of Central Africa
Bernard Malango
Statement



Chairman of the Lambeth Commission
Robin Eames
Statement



Primate of Nigeria
Peter Akinola
Statement

   

Photo sources: Chane (Episcopal Diocese of Washington); Griswold (Anglican World: Anne Wetzel); Williams (Eleanor Bentall); Dyer (Louie Crew); Ndungane (Lu Léon); Morgan (Church in Wales); Hutchison (General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada); Malango (Forward in Faith); Eames (Jim Rosenthal/ACNS); Akinola (Anglican Communion).

Check out this resource from the Diocese of East Tennessee with information on the commission, its mandate and potential outcomes.

Check out this resource - Some Questions and Answers about the Lambeth Commission - prepared by Simon Sarmiento available on Anglicans Online.

Check out this resource from the Episcopal Divinity School designed to help clergy and lay people in the Episcopal Church study, discuss, and interpret the report in a way that offers new ground for dialogue and hopefully, reconciliation.