ACK Archbishop Ole Sapit: England will no longer be leader of the Anglican Communion
Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit
says England will no longer be the leader of the global Anglican Church.
This is following last month’s decision by the Church of England
allowing priests to preside over same-sex couples known.
In a Sunday interview with Citizen TV, Sapit said Anglican churches in
Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania are in the process of creating a
new leadership for themselves, in an effort to preserve Biblical doctrines.
“In May we are going to have a meeting in Cairo of the Global South to
have the same discussion. What we have already agreed and pronounced is that
England is no longer going to be the leader of the Anglican Communion,” he
said.
“We are maybe going to get a leader on rotational basis of our communion
that believes in orthodox teaching of the Bible.”
The archbishop also criticized some Western churche’s push for a gender-neutral
Bible, saying the Anglican community in Africa does not support it.
“Soon I’m going to meet my house of bishops and we are in consultation with
the other African provinces and soon we are going to meet the the Global Anglican
Future Conference which are saying no and want to preach the Bible as it
is and preserve it without introducing any gender-neutral thing to it,” Sapit
said.
Following last month’s
decision by the Church of England, the Kenyan church made it clear that it will not follow in the steps of its mother church in England.
It termed the decision as a departure from
true biblical doctrine.
“Having lost all theological and doctrinal
legitimacy, the liberal churches are using their political dominance to
secularise the church by normalising all manner of sin,” read a letter from Ole
Sapit to the Church of England.
The Kenyan church maintained that the decision
by the Church of England cannot force them to follow a doctrine they do not
subscribe to.
“The general synod of the Church of England
makes legislation for the Church of England and their resolutions apply only to
the Church of England,” the ACK said.
The Kenyan clergy told their congregants that
they will not subscribe to the decision to bless same-sex unions as they do not
recognise them.
“We do not recognise any teachings that are
extra biblical or contrary to the teachings of the bible, his grace affirms
that marriage is a union between a man and a woman, monogamous and heterosexual,”
the letter read.
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