The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, has announced that the Rt. Rev. Tito Zavala, Bishop of Chile, will no longer serve as a member of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO).
“Many of you will have read the Archbishop of Canterbury’s letter to the Anglican Communion issued at Pentecost last (28 May 2010),” Kearon wrote.
Archbishop Rowan Williams recommended that “provinces that have formally, through their Synod or House of Bishops, adopted policies that breach any of the moratoria requested by the Instruments of Communion and recently reaffirmed by the Standing Committee and the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) — should not be participants in the ecumenical dialogues in which the Communion is formally engaged.”
The archbishop also recommended that members of such provinces no longer serve as members of IASCUFO.
“At that time I wrote to the Primate of the Southern Cone, whose interventions in other provinces are referred to in the Windsor Continuation Group Report asking him for clarification as to the current state of his interventions into other provinces. I have not received a response,” Kearon wrote. “Consequently, I have written to the person from the Province of the Southern Cone who is a member of the Inter Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order (IASCUFO), Bishop Tito Zavala, withdrawing his membership and inviting him to serve as a Consultant to that body.”
Kearon added: “These decisions are not taken easily or lightly, but relate to the gracious restraint requested by successive meetings of the Instruments of Communion and the implications for Communion bodies when these requests are not honoured.”
Kearon announced the development in the late afternoon Oct. 14.
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