ACK Archbishop Ole Sapit: England will no longer be leader of the Anglican Communion

ACK Archbishop Ole Sapit: England will no longer be leader of the Anglican Communion

Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit in an interview with Citizen TV on March 5, 2023. | FILE

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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