ChurchOfTorresStrait.org
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The Church of TORRESS STRAIT - Welcome -
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Who are we:
THE Church of Torres Strait is a member church of the worldwide Traditional Anglican Communion. The Torres Strait church was formed from an historic meeting at Thursday Island, 22-25 November 1997 of the clergy, elders and laity of the Torres Strait, who were members of the Diocese of North Queensland/Carpentaria in the Anglican Church of Australia.
Previous to this meeting, the Torres Strait Regional Council had passed unanimously a motion of "no confidence" in the [Anglican] Bishop of North Queensland, it asked the Primate (Dr. Keith Rayner) to appoint an episcopal overseer until such time as the Torres Strait could become a Diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia. The Primate responded with a letter telling the Islanders to listen to the Bishop. He made them feel insulted and disempowered.
The Bishop of North Queensland went ahead with the consecration of a man clearly unacceptable culturally and theologically to the vast majority of people who live in the Torres Strait. He ignored requests to postpone the consecration in the interest of further dialogue and the possibility of reaching a common mind. The opportunity that the Anglican Church of Australia had to set an example in this matter was destroyed by the refusal of its theologically liberal leadership to put aside its own agenda Dialogue with the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia was stepped up. The Islanders wanted self-determination of the Torres Strait Church, and the maintenance of the Catholic way of being Anglican. The Anglican Catholic Church would provide both requests.
Contact
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- ELSTERNWICK VICTORIA
- AU 3185
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- +61.395286660
