For many years the largely liberal (and ECUSA financed) Province of Brazil has struggled to accept the existence within it of a vibrant, committed, and mission oriented evangelical contingent based in the North East of the country. As the storm clouds gather over the Anglican Communion as a whole, it appears that the Primate, Dom Orlando with the other liberal bishops, is bent on coercing Dom. Robinson Cavalcanti and the evangelical diocese of Recife out into the storm.

The Commission, which has come to be called the Lambeth Commission, has now completed its work. Their report will be released in London on October 18 in conjunction with a joint meeting of the Standing Committee of the Primates, of which I am a member, and the Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council.

The candidates for confirmation did not want to be confirmed by their own bishop. In making his Episcopal visit to Virginia from Great Britain, Lord Carey, who disagrees with the approval of Bishop Robinson, assumed the role that would normally be played by the local bishop.

Robinson’s enthronement as bishop led 21 of the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion to break or declare impaired communion with the Episcopal Church in the United States.

The former parishioner, Beverly Moore, complained about the man verbally and in writing to church officials from May 2001 until she was excommunicated in October 2002. She said she was removed from the church after openly refusing to take communion wine from Mack Swafford, a lay leader. Swafford was arrested Aug. 30 on child molestation charges alleged to have occurred between 1986 and 1990.