THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS LOST MORE THAN 70% OF ITS BELIEVERS The enthronement of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, will take place on March 25. In anticipation of this event, the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) has established a new governing body, thereby definitively severing ties with the Church of England administration. In early March, in the Nigerian city of Abuja, 347 Anglican bishops and 121 spiritual leaders from 27 provinces of the global South held a meeting, which resulted in the establishment of the Global Anglican Council (GAC). "For more than two decades, we have humbly prayed for the repentance of those high-ranking leaders of the Anglican Church who, by word and deed, have renounced the true faith. At present, a reorganization of the Anglican Communion is necessary, as a significant number of provinces claiming to belong to the Anglican Church have rejected the authority of the Holy Scriptures and failed to faithfully follow Christ. The instruments of Canterbury (the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, and others) have failed to ensure discipline, preserve the biblical witness, and uphold the fundamental Anglican doctrine," says the final document of the meeting, published on the official GAFCON website. "We reject the so-called instruments of communication, namely the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council, and the Primates' Meeting, which have failed to uphold the doctrine and discipline of the Anglican Communion," the authors of the document conclude. The Global Anglican Future Conference, or, as they are also called, the Worldwide Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, is an international movement of conservative Anglican churches that emerged in 2008 in Jerusalem. It unites more than 70% of the active parishioners of global Anglicanism, mainly from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The main goal of the movement is to preserve fidelity to the historical teachings and mission of the church and to resist "liberal" reforms in the Anglican Communion. It became known last October that the Anglicans of the global South planned to withdraw from the authority of the Church of England, immediately after a woman was elected as the new Primate of the Anglican Communion. Recall that the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigned in November 2024. It took almost a year for the community to elect a new Primate. However, a part of the clergy and believers did not accept this choice. On January 28 this year, during the legal confirmation ceremony of Mullally's appointment in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, an incident occurred that interrupted the solemn ritual. The priest Paul Williamson interrupted the ceremony and declared his disagreement with the candidacy of the new archbishop. The protest was immediately suppressed, and the priest was removed from the cathedral. Later, Williamson explained that he not only opposed the very principle of ordaining women, but also referred to past accusations against the new archbishop, which, in his opinion, remain without proper consideration. These are statements that were filed against Sarah Mullally when she was the Bishop of London. In one of them, a victim of clerical abuse accused Mullally of forwarding his confidential complaint directly to the priest he was complaining about. This is a gross violation of the victim's anonymity and safety. The Church, although it admitted the fact of an "administrative error", ultimately dismissed the claims in an official investigation. 4 CONTINUЕ