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The reordering of the Global Anglican Communion is a process, and in Abuja at the G26 gathering we saw meaningful steps taken in the right direction. Leaders have built the kind of global, biblically faithful Anglican fellowship that many of us have prayed and worked toward for decades. There may still be improvements to make, but what has begun is something worth celebrating.

For that, we give thanks to the Lord....

A Declaration and a Beginning: Reflections on the Reordering of the Global Anglican Communion - American Anglican Council When the Martyrs’ Day Statement was issued on October 16 of last year, my immediate reaction was that it reminded me of the United States’ Declaration of Independence. When the Declaration of Independence was issued on July 4, 1776, it did not come out of nowhere. It followed years of attempts b...

Leaders of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) outlined a series of historic developments during a press conference today in Abuja, where bishops and primates from across the GAFCON movement gathered for the 2026 GAFCON Council. Central to the discussion was the Martyrs Day Statement of October 16, 2025, issued during the G25 gathering in Plano, Texas...

GAFCON Leaders Announce Historic Developments for Global Anglican Governance - American Anglican Council ABUJA, Nigeria — Leaders of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) outlined a series of historic developments during a press conference today in Abuja, where bishops and primates from across the GAFCON movement gathered for the 2026 GAFCON Council. Central to the discussion was the Martyrs...

Today the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) announced revisions to proposals that are seeking to reshape the Anglican Communion on the same week that Gafcon G26 is proposing a biblical (not just structural) way forward. This was no accident on the ACC's part. It's trying to undermine Gafcon's attempt to re-order the Communion around the Word of God.

This attempt causes us to ask some questions: If the Communion’s institutions are now proposing a form of democratization that gives greater authority to Global South leaders and provinces, how will GAFCON respond? Will such reforms be seen as a meaningful step toward addressing long-standing concerns, or as another attempt to preserve existing structures while diffusing pressure from the Global South? Will the GAFCON council directly address the Nairobi–Cairo proposals at G26 in a decisive way?

It's our hope that some of these questions will be answered in the structural reforms laid out here this week, based on theological conviction and the Word of God.

GAFCON Meets as the Anglican Communion Announces its Own Reform - American Anglican Council As bishops and church leaders gather in Abuja, Nigeria for the 2026 GAFCON Council, another conversation about the future of the Anglican Communion is unfolding at the same time. The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) recently announced that it will consider revised versions of the Nairobi–Cairo ...