CLERGY in the US who are associ­ated with Communion Partners have published a state­ment of support for the seven bishops who met the Archbishop earlier this month (News, 4 September).

The movement is committed to sup­porting the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion, to respecting tra­ditional provin­cial boundaries, and to upholding a Cov­enant based on the Windsor report principles.

“We echo the commitment of the bishops ‘to remain constituent members of both the An­glican Communion and the Episcopal Church’,” the 74 priests said in a statement last Friday.

They endorsed their bishops’ interest in Dr Williams’s hope that the Covenant could express “mutuality” for some “entities”, even if a whole province could not sign up to it.

'One single tier'

THE Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori, said this week that the Archbishop of Canterbury did not have the authority to tell her Church to accept a two-tier Communion for the sake of unity.