The Synod of the Province of the Anglican Church in South East Asia, at the 2nd Meeting of its 6th Session in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia, from 29th to 31st January, 2018.

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31st January 2018

Noting the decision of the Scottish Episcopal Church on 8 June 2017 to change its doctrine of marriage and to recognise same-sex marriages and further to amend its Canons to allow for the rite of blessing of same-sex marriages, which is a contravention of Resolution 1.10 of the Lambeth Conference 1998; and

Recalling that as a consequence of the then Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA) proceeding with the consecration of Gene Robinson as a Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in 2003, in contravention of Resolution 1.10 of the Lambeth Conference 1998, the Province of the Anglican Church in South East Asia declared in 2003 that it was in a state of impaired communion with ECUSA (now known as The Episcopal Church)

Now it is hereby resolved,

That the Province of the Anglican Church in South East Asia declares itself to be in a state of impaired communion with the Scottish Episcopal Church with immediate effect.      

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Acknowledging the establishment of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) in 2009 by former members of The Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada, having disassociated themselves from revised teachings with respect to human sexuality and marriage,

Recalling that in 2010 the Global South Primates meeting in Singapore welcomed the formation of the ACNA as a faithful expression of Anglicanism, and

Noting the admission of ACNA as a partner province to the Global South in 2015 by the Primates of the Global South,

Recognising that the orders of priests in the ACNA have been recognised by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, under the Overseas and Other Clergy (Ministry and Ordination) Measure 1967,

Now it is hereby resolved,

That the Province of the Anglican Church in South East Asia recognises ACNA as an Ecclesiastical Province in its own right and affirms its full communion with the archbishop, bishops, clergy and laity of ACNA.

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The Most Reverend Datuk Ng Moon Hing 
Archbishop of the Province of South East Asia
Bishop of West Malaysia

The Right Reverend Datuk Melter Jiki Tais 
Bishop of Sabah

The Right Reverend Rennis Ponniah
Bishop of Singapore

The Right Reverend Danald Jute
Bishop of Kuching