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The main task of the Director of Ecumenical Affairs and Studies is to co-ordinate the Anglican Communion's relationships with other World Communions and with the World Council of Churches. Where formal conversations exist at the world-level between Anglicans and other Christians, the Director serves as co-secretary of those dialogues, and as such is responsible for the research, logistics, planning and subsequent follow-up in study and action related to these inter-church conversations. Additional inter-church responsibilities include being a consultant to the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and to the Joint Working Group between the WCC and the Roman Catholic Church. With Churches in Communion, such as the Old Catholics of the Union of Utrecht, the Director is responsible for nurturing and deepening these established relations of ecclesial communion.
The Director is also engaged in Communion meetings and consultations related to matters of doctrine and order, thus keeping the ecumenical and doctrinal agenda closely linked. These tasks include being secretary to the Inter Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations and the Inter Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission.
Staff
Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council and Director of Ecumenical Affairs: Canon Gregory Cameron
Canon Gregory Cameron is a native of Wales. Ordained in the Church in Wales
in 1983, he worked for six years in parish ministry before moving to work
with Christian and Spiritual Education amongst young people for twelve
years. In 2000 he became Chaplain to the Archbishop of Wales. In April
2003, he was appointed to the post of Director of Ecumenical Affairs at
the ACO, and assumed additional responsibilities as Deputy Secretary General
in October 2004. Gregory has experience of ecumenism at a local and provincial
level, as well as a strong interest in Canon Law. He holds degrees from
the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Wales, and is an honorary Research
Fellow of the Centre for Law and Religion in Cardiff University. As Director
of Ecumenical Affairs and Studies, he is co-secretary of all international
Anglican ecumenical dialogue commissions of the Anglican Consultative Council,
and is additionally Secretary to three Commissions of the Anglican Communion.
He is married with three sons, and was appointed as a Canon of Monmouth,
his home diocese, in 2003. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate
of Divinity by the Episcopal Divinity School in Boston.
Administrator: Terrie Robinson
Terrie's career to date has embraced the study of foreign languages for business, product development for an international marketing company, ten years' parish ministry and administration, and two years with Save the Children UK. After several years as a Lay Reader, Terrie studied with the St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course and was ordained priest in 2002 in the Diocese of Oxford where she serves the Benefice of the Cookhams in Berkshire.
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