18.09.2010
2011 Anglican Communion Primates' Meeting to be held in Ireland
The next Primates’ Meeting of the Anglican Communion will be held in Ireland between the 25th and 31st January, 2011.
Senior bishops from Churches across the Communion will be invited by the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams to attend the meeting taking place at the Emmaus Retreat & Conference Centre in Dublin, Ireland.
The Most Revd Alan Harper, OBE, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, said, "I welcome the opportunity to provide hospitality to the Primates again. This will be an important meeting. The Anglican Covenant will be before the Primates and I would ask you to keep the Anglican Communion in your prayers."
The Primates' Meeting was established in 1978 by Archbishop Donald Coggan (101st Archbishop of Canterbury) as an opportunity for “leisurely thought, prayer and deep consultation” and has met regularly since then. Today it has become an important consultative meeting for Primates and Moderators and is recognised as one of the Instruments of Communion.
Recent Primates’ Meetings have been held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania in 2007 and Alexandria, Egypt in 2009.