{"id":5727,"date":"2016-04-19T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2016-04-19T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:25:00","slug":"primate-of-hong-kong-elected-as-new-chair-of-anglican-consultative-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/primate-of-hong-kong-elected-as-new-chair-of-anglican-consultative-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Primate of Hong Kong elected as new chair of Anglican Consultative Council"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Archbishop Paul Kwong at ACC-16 in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Lusaka as it is announced that he has been elected chair of the Anglican Consultative Council<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Article adapted from Anglican Communion News Service)<\/strong><\/p>\n

[ACNS, by Gavin Drake] The Archbishop and Primate of Hong Kong, the Most Revd Dr Paul Kwong, has been elected as the new chair of the Anglican Consultative Council \u2013 the legally constituted body that brings together Anglican churches from around the world. Dr Kwong will take on his new role at the end of the current meeting of ACC-16 which is being held in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Lusaka, Zambia, until Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Archbishop \u2013 the first serving Primate to be elected to the role \u2013 said that he was \u201cdeeply honoured and humbled\u201d by his election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the most important issue that we have to work towards is to hold the Communion together,\u201d he said, \u201cand also to bring all the people of differences \u2013 people who are of different views of different matters \u2013 together, to work together and to serve together.<\/p>\n

The new chair said that the Anglican Communion existed for mission: \u201cThis is the major objective of the Communion, he said, \u201cbecause we have to serve the Communion that we are called to serve. We have to make the Communion be relevant to the world; to the people we are called by God to serve. I think this is the most pressing thing we do, regardless of the differences that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that the mission of the Anglican Communion was expressed through discipleship, and in addressing issues of poverty, human trafficking and violence. \u201cThere are far too many things and we have to [tackle] them together for the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He explained how his Hong Kong background would be an asset in helping the Communion to hold together. Hong Kong \u2013 despite its mix of Western and Eastern cultures, was \u201cbasically a Chinese community,\u201d he said. \u201cChinese culture is very inclusive. Normally, we don\u2019t judge who is wrong and who is right. We walk together with those who are right and also with those who are wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing from this kind of culture, perspective and attitude I think I would probably make some contribution to the life of the Communion. But I don\u2019t know how successful I will be because I don\u2019t think a single person can achieve all these things. In order to achieve these goals, in order to hold the Communion together, I have to work with every single person in the ACC and within the other instruments of unity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Archbishop Kwong is the first Primate to be elected to chair the ACC. He recognised that this might be a concern for some \u2013 the ACC is the only formal international Anglican Communion that includes lay people \u2013 but said that being a Primate would give him access to the other Instruments of Unity \u2013 the Primates Meeting, the Lambeth Conference, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe role of the chair of ACC is not just to chair meetings,\u201d he said. \u201cThe chair of ACC, as I see the role and responsibilities, is to connect people \u2013 or reconnect people \u2013 in the Communion.\u201d He said that the four Instruments of Communion were \u201cnot independent from each other\u201d and needed to be connected to each other \u201cfor the purpose of holding the Community [together], building up the community and making the community relevant to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Archbishop Kwong received 40 votes. The runner up, Professor Joanildo Burity from Brazil, received 25 votes. Archbishop Kwong will succeed Bishop James Tengatenga, who will step down at the end of the current meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Article adapted from Anglican Communion News Service) [ACNS, by Gavin Drake] The Archbishop and Primate of Hong Kong, the Most Revd Dr Paul Kwong, has been elected as the new chair of the Anglican Consultative Council \u2013 the legally constituted body that brings together Anglican churches from around the world. Dr Kwong will take on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5729,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions\/5729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}