Orthodox Traditional Anglicans should closely observe developments in the Lambeth Communion Churches of Kenya and Uganda, which now openly embrace the error recently imposed by the Church of England.
The purported consecration of women to the episcopate is a church-dividing issue for Traditional Anglicans. Orthodox Anglicans cannot be in communicatio in sacris with bishops and jurisdictions that purport to ordain women to the episcopate and presbyterate. It is a matter of the esse of the Church and goes to heart of what the Church is as constituted by the Divine Will of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It is a matter of divinely-revealed ecclesiology and sacramentology, not adiaphoron.
This heresy of neo-ordination, which is a violation of the universal intent of the Undivided Catholic Church, predates the crises related to the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony and Christian moral teaching on sexuality, and is in fact the genesis of the subsequent errors concerning sexuality: we have the seen the original problem generate the others within the span of forty years. The one error leads inevitably to the others, as they share the same false doctrines on creation and anthropology, and the same false gnostic hermeneutic, or interpretation, of Holy Scripture. As the errors concerning ordination lead to the loss of the grace of the sacraments and the constitution of the Church as established by Christ in the Apostolic Succession, so the errors concerning sexuality lead to the denigration of Holy Matrimony and the family.
A church that endorses the one will eventually endorse the others.
Let us pray that the Lord will still preserve in orthodoxy and fidelity those Anglican Churches which continue to drift away from the fullness of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith.
In the meantime, the Continuing Churches persevere, evangelise, and grow around the world.
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