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The new GAFCON Anglican Diocese of the Southern Cross has a second congregation.
The continued move of the Anglican Diocese of South East Queensland away from orthodox Anglican Theology has led to the resignation of another senior minister.
The Australian Anglican Church has been in a perilous position since the majority of the Australian house of bishops failed to affirm orthodox biblical teaching on marriage at the General Synod earlier this year.
At St John’s Wishardt in South Brisbane yesterday, Rector Peter Judge Mears, told the congregation he had given Archbishop Phillip Aspinal his resignation.
Gafcon Australia Chair Richard Condie says the crisis in the Australian Church has been caused by revisionist Bishops who have rejected traditional Biblical and Anglican doctrine.
Gafcon has formed an Anglican lifeboat for faithful Christians, the ‘Diocese of the Southern Cross’ announced at the big GAFCON Australasia Conference, this week in Canberra.
Guests on this week’s The Pastor’s Heart:
Richard Condie, Bishop of Tasmania and Chair of Gafcon Australia
Glenn Davies, Bishop of the new Anglican Southern Cross Diocese and Former Archbishop of Sydney
Foley Beach, Primate of the Anglican Church in North America, and Chair of the Gafcon Primate’s Council
Jennifer Hercott, Member of Gafcon Australia Board and registrar of the Diocese of Central Queensland
There are now two expressions of Anglicanism in Australia.
Southern Cross Anglican Church opened in Beenleigh in Brisbane on Sunday. The new Southern Cross Anglican Diocese has been created. And Former Sydney Archbishop Glenn Davies will be the diocese’ first bishop.
We canvass some of the issues Archbishop Raffel might have broached in his first Presidential address, had the 'Synod in the Greenfields' (scheduled for this Saturday 26 February 2022) not been postponed due to the Omicron outbreak.
Archbishop Raffel speaks frankly about the Greenfields challenge, indigenous issues, multiculturalism, the national church and the current religious freedom debate.