Global South (Anglican)

The Anglican Global South is a grouping of twenty of the thirty-eight provinces of the Anglican Communion. The provinces identified with the Global South grouping represent most, but not all, of the Third World countries within the Communion and are mostly conservative on matters of sexual ethics, in line with their local cultural norms, and evangelical in churchmanship. Significantly, the term excludes the Anglican Churches of Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Africa.

The term Global South was originally simply a general description of what was formerly referred to as the Third World, which is primarily in the Southern Hemisphere. It was applied, specifically, to Christian churches only in 2003, gaining impetus in the context of disputes within the Anglican Communion over the ordination in 2003 of a partnered gay man, Gene Robinson, as a bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States. Global South churches, in alliance with conservative Anglicans in the United States, have since then vigorously protested the unacceptability to them of any accommodation of same-sex relationships within the Anglican Communion.

The majority of the Provinces are part of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA). The Global South makes regular pronouncements on the internal politics of the Anglican Communion, with particular emphasis upon issues of human sexuality, through a self appointed Steering Committee, whose Chairman is the Primate of Nigeria, the Most Rev. Peter Akinola.

Provinces

• The Church of Bangladesh
• The Anglican Church of Burundi (CAPA)
• The Church of the Province of Central Africa (CAPA)
• The Church of South India
• The Province of the Anglican Church of The Congo (CAPA)
• The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean (CAPA)
• The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East (CAPA)
• The Anglican Church of Kenya (CAPA)
• The Church of the Province of Myanmar
• The Church of Nigeria (CAPA)
• The Episcopal Church in the Philippines
• The Church of the Province of Rwanda (CAPA)
• The Church of the Province of South East Asia
• The Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America
• The Episcopal Church of the Sudan (CAPA)
• The Anglican Church of Tanzania (CAPA)
• The Church of Uganda (CAPA)
• The Church of the Province of West Africa (CAPA)
• The Church in the Province of the West Indies

See also

• Anglican Mission in the Americas
• Anglican realignment
• Convocation of Anglicans in North America
• Global Anglican Future Conference
• Windsor Report

External links

• The Global South Anglican: its origins and development by Dr Michael Poon
• Global South Anglican Website