Anglican Consultative Council - Standing Committee
Standing Committe Members
Abp Rowan Williams (President)
Rowan Williams is the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003. He is also a Focus for Unity for the three Instruments of Communion of the Anglican Communion, and is therefore a unique focus for Anglican unity. He calls the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of Primates, and is President of the Anglican Consultative Council.
Bp James Tengatenga (Chair)
James Tengatenga has been Bishop of Southern Malawi since 1998 and is a member of the Anglican Consultative Council and of the Standing Committee. He also represents the ACC on the Board of St. George’s College, Jerusalem. He was elected as ACC Chair in 2009 and therefore acts as Chair of the Standing Committee.
Canon Elizabeth Paver (Vice-Chair)
Elizabeth Paver is a lay canon of Sheffield Cathedral, a former member of the Panel of Chairs of the General Synod of the Church of England, and chair of the Board of Mirfield Theological College, and was elected as vice-chair of the ACC in 2009 and is therefore Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee.
Abp Phillip Aspinall (Primates’ Standing Committee member)
Phillip Aspinall was consecrated bishop in Adelaide on 29 June 1998 where he served as Assistant Bishop until December 2001. Dr Aspinall took up his appointment as Archbishop of Brisbane in February 2002. He was elected Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia in 2005. In 2007 the Archbishop was appointed as a Member of the Standing Committee of the Primates' Meeting of the Anglican Communion and member (ex officio) of the Anglican Consultative Council.
Abp Barry Morgan (Primates’ Standing Committee member)
The Most Rev Dr. Barry Cennydd Morgan has been the leader and Archbishop of the Church in Wales since 2003. He has served on the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, and serves on the Primates’ Standing Committee. He was also a member of the Lambeth Commission which produced the Windsor Report in 2004.
Bp Katharine Jefferts Schori (Primates’ Standing Committee member)
The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, previously Bishop of Nevada, is the twenty-sixth Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church. Jefferts Schori was elected at the 75th General Convention on June 18, 2006 and invested at Washington National Cathedral on November 4, 2006. Dr Jefferts Schori’s first ACC meeting was in Jamaica in 2009 and her first Primates’ Meeting was in 2007.
Bp Paul Sarker (Primates’ Standing Committee member)
Bishop Paul Sarker, moderator of the Church of Bangladesh and Bishop of Dhaka is attending the Standing Committee meeting for the first time as the appointed alternate to the President Bishop of the Middle East, Dr Mouneer Anis of Egypt.
Mrs Philippa Amable (ACC appointment)
Currently the Chancellor of The Church of the Province of West Africa, Philippa Amable joined as a lay member of ACC 2005 in Nottingham and was elected to the Standing Committee at the same meeting.
Bp Ian Douglas (ACC appointment)
As bishop-elect The Rev. Dr. Ian T. Douglas began work for the Diocese of Connecticut on Feb. 1. He was ordained and consecrated two months later on April 17, 2010 as the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. The Episcopal Church appointed him to attend the ACC-14 in Jamaica and it was here he was elected as a representative on the Standing Committee.
Dr Anthony Fitchett (ACC appointment)
Dr. Anthony Fitchett, who practices medicine in New Zealand, has been involved in the administration of the Anglican Church at local and national levels and associated with the Anglican Communion for many years. At the last ACC-14 in Jamaica he was appointed as the chairman of the Resolutions Committee that drafted the resolutions on the Covenant debated at that ACC meeting. It was at this meeting that he was also elected to the Standing Committee.
Bp Kumara Illangasinghe (ACC appointment)
Currently a bishop of the Church of Ceylon in Sri Lanka Kumara Illangasinghe was at the last two ACC meetings in Nottingham and Jamaica. His work in the diocese has most recently included helping to co-ordinate the churches’ response to the large number of Tamil casualties at the end of the war in Kurunegala, and speaking out against politics-related violence in Sri Lanka.
Dato’ Stanley Isaacs (ACC appointment)
A Malaysian lawyer, Dato’ Stanley Isaacs has represented theChurch of the Province of South East Asia—whose dioceses include Kuching, Sabah, Singapore and West Malaysia - at the last two Anglican Consultative Councils. He will retire from the ACC, and therefore the Standing Committee after ACC-15.
Revd Canon Janet Trisk
Janet Trisk of South Africa is Rector of the Parish of St David, Prestbury in Pietermaritzburg, in the Diocese of Natal. She is taking the place of Ms. Nomfundo Walaza of South Africa who stepped down to concentrate on her role as Director of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre. Canon Trisk has attended both the 2005 and the 2009 Anglican Consultative Council meetings.