Complaints Mount Against Panel of Reference
10/02/2006

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Panel of Reference conducted a field investigation last week into the dispute between the Diocese of Florida and the “Florida 6.” The rare field interview occurred at a time when frustration is growing among leaders of the Global South group of primates with the slow pace of review and the seemingly arbitrary manner in which appeals are forwarded for consideration.

The review of the Florida appeal, one of four under active consideration by the panel, was described by the Rt. Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard, Bishop of Florida, as “courteous and productive.” The four days of talks were led by Robert Tong, a solicitor from Sydney, Australia, and the Most Rev. Maurice Sinclair, retired primate of the Southern Cone. the rest