The Anglican Communion is facing the largest rupture in its 500-year history. What began in 2008 as a warning from the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) has culminated this October in what appears a formal break, with the declaration of a new Global Anglican Communion, representing what its primates claim to be up to 85 percent of the world’s Anglicans.
The apparent schism could mark the end of Canterbury’s undisputed spiritual leadership while signalling a transfer of ecclesial gravity from England to the Global South. For the Catholic Church and the Pope, the Anglican rupture serves as both caution and invitation.
