Louie's Index: October 2004

By Louie Crew

What is the specific charge of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Lambeth Commission?
Answer: There are 4 parts. Click on the additional information to review them.
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What is the distribution of the Commissioners by continent?
Answer: 29% from Africa; 24% from the UK; 12% each from Asia, the Caribbean, New Zealand, and North America. There are no commissioners from Australia, Central America, Europe, or South America. Only one commissioner comes from Canada and one from the The Episcopal Church USA -- the two provinces on whom the Commission is asked to sit in judgment.
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What is the gender distribution of the Commission?
Answer: 35% female
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What is the distribution of orders among members of the Commission?
Answer: 59% bishops; 12% other clergy; 29% laity.
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What U.S. Episcopalian is on the Lambeth Commission? What prior roles has he officially held in the Anglican Communion?
Answer: Rt. Rev. Mark Dyer, Retired Bishop of Bethlehem. Previously he served as the Episcopal Church's bishop representative to the Anglican Consultative Council, in a 9-year term that ended in 2000.
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Why is is sometimes called "Eames 2"?
Answer: It is chaired by Archbishop Robin Eames, Primate of All Ireland. He chaired an earlier "Eames Commission" which reported to the primates in response to the conflicts in the early days of women's ordination to the priesthood.

What is the budget for the Lambeth Commission?
Answer: "Some £60,000 [$109,278] - roughly £20,000 [$36,426] a meeting, i.e. approxinately£1000 [$1,821] per person per meeting. This money has been found from the regular budget of the ACC from the suspended meetings of the Oriental Orthodox Commission and IARCCUM, delaying the start of the next round of Methodist and Lutheran Commissions from 2004 to 2005, which had become likely in any case, and the suspension of meetings of the Doctrinal Commission for two years." -- Canon Gregory K. Cameron, Secretary to the Commission
See the spreedsheet for estimated airfares. See also the proportion each province pays to support the work of the Anglican Consultative Council
When did the Lambeth Commission meet with Bishop Gene Robinson & Bishop Michael Ingman, referenced in the first clause of their charge?
Answer: Never. Canon Gregory Cameron, secretary of the Commission, insists that the Commission is willing to "hear" from the bishops on whom the Commission focuses, but only on paper.

When did the Lambeth Commission meet with anti-homosexual activist Diane Knippers?
Answer: On Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at Kanuga in Hendersonville, NC

What percentage of Google's hits for "Diane Knippers" also have the term homosexual?
Answer: 616 out of 1,680 (37%)
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What percentage of Google's hits for "Louie Crew" also have the term homosexual?
Answer: 2,710 out of 6,160 (44%)
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What percentage of Google's hits for "David Anderson" also have the term homosexual?
Answer: 412 out of 613 (67%)
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Which concerns most frequently show up in combination with Google searches for "Bishop Robert Duncan" (head of the "Anglican Communion Network")?
Answer: Samples: "Bishop Robert Duncan" & "homosexuals": 415. "....& "the homeless": 31. "...& "refugees": 33. ....& "widows" 9. ...& "orphans": 13
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How many of the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion have officially declared they are in "impaired communion" with The Episcopal Church?
Answer: Nine, according to Patrick Mauney, Canon for Anglican and Global Relations for the Episcopal Church. He counterstates Network leaders who claim the count is between 18 and 22.
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Of the 38 Anglican primates, how many have said they will not receive money from The Episcopal Church?
Answer: 6.
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How many dioceses has The Episcopal Church (TEC) cut from receiving grants because of their opposition to the actions of General Convention 2003?
Answer: Zero. We feel that it is God's money, not ours, and the need is great.

Which bishops have joined the "Network"?
Answer: Technically none. It is a network of dioceses and parishes. The Network's website encourages individual clergy to 'affiliate' but it does not list those who have.
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What percent of the budget of TEC has been cut in the wake of economic pressures from dissenters?
Answer: 7 percent, according to Kurt Barnes, Treasurer.
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Which two dioceses have refused to send any money to the budget of The Episcopal Church?
Answer: Dallas & Pittsburgh
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How many of the 38 primates have said they will not speak with or eat with Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold?
Answer: Zero.
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Who are the current lay, episcopal and clergy representatives of The Episcopal Church on the Anglican Consultative Council?
Answer: Lay: Ms. Josephine Hicks, Esq. Bishop: Rt. Rev. Catherine Roskam, Bishop Suffragan of NY. Clergy: The Rev. Robert Sessum
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What primate described Anglican Canadian and U.S. support of gays as "not only madness but satanic"?
Answer: Most Rev. Peter Akinola, Archbishop of Nigeria
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What bishop from Brazil traveled to the U.S. to participate in a confirmation service of 110 people in the Diocese of Ohio, without permission of that diocesan bishop?
Answer: Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti. The primate of all Brazil, Most Revd Orlando Santos de Oliveira, apologized to Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold for this unauthorized interference.
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Which African primate indicated that Global South primates expressing opposition to gay ordination are "arrogant, intolerant, and hypocritical"?
Answer: Archbishop Njongongulu Ndungane of Cape Town
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What six groups in the U.S. have joined the conservative Anglican Communion Network (ACN)?
Answer: The ACN itself, plus The Reformed Episcopal Church, The Anglican Mission in America, Forward in Faith North American, the Anglican Province in America, and the American Anglican Council. Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh, is chairman of the ACN.
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Which of Gene Robinson's classmates at General Theological Seminary are now his colleagues in the House of Bishops?
Answer: 31 received an MDiv in Gene Robinson Class of 1973 at GTS, including Robert Duncan, now Bishop of Pittsburgh and Henry Parsley, Bishop of Alabama. Both of them voted against consents to Gene Robinson's consecration.
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One of the following dioceses is in a country which does not give a life in prison as the maximum sentence for homosexual acts. Which one is it?: Uganda; The Sudan; South India; Bangladesh; or North India.
Answer: The Sudan assigns the death penalty. All the other countries listed assign a maximum of life in prison.
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What is the name of the bishop who tried to perform an exorcism on British gay leader the Rev. Richard Kirker during the Lambeth Conference in 1998?
Answer: Bishop Emanuel Chukwama from Nigeria.
Click here to hear a brief audio file of the failed attempt.
In August 2001, I asked 443 Anglican bishops what he or she had done 1) "to listen to the experience of homosexual people" and 2) "to assure them that they are loved by God." -- as promised at Lambeth 1998. How many have responded?
Answer: Only 23, and not all of those positively.
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Did the Sudanese bishops at Lambeth 1998 use their time in the international spotlight more to promote attention to the devastating Civil War in their country or to address the "evils" of homosexuality?
Answer: Andy Warhol said each person has only 15 minutes of fame. Sudanese bishops used up their time at the mics of Lambeth to rant against the evils of homosexuality, with little attention left when they talked about the pressing needs of their own people. Google turns up only 155 hits for s sites that have all these terms: "Civil war" Sudan "Lambeth Conference" Anglican. If you exchange 'homosexuality' for "Civil war" the hit increase by 19.3%, to 185.
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What are the instruments of Anglican unity?
Answer: The Archbishop of Canterbury. The Anglican Consultative Council. The Primates. The Lambeth Conference.

In Africa, do Muslims have a lower or higher rate of HIV infection than non-Muslims?
Answer: Lower, according to Social Science & Medicine (2004; 58 (9): 1751-1756). Researchers point out that Muslim circumcision may be as significant as Muslim prohibitions against extra-marital relations.
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What Episcopal bishop has written a book titled Why Bush Must Go?
Answer: Rt. Rev. Bennett J. Sims, Retired Bishop of Atlanta (New York: Continuum Books, 2004)
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How many ordinaries are eligible to serve a full 9-year term if elected Presiding Bishop in 2006?
Answer: 49 of 110 ordinaries.
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**Faces in the Whirlwind** How many can you identify?
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Louie Crew is a writer and a well-known collector and disseminator of statistics and little-known facts about the Anglican Communion, which may be found on his website . He writes a regular online column for The Witness. Louie may be reached by email at lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu .