St Peter’s Anglican Church

The Saints and Martyrs of the Anglican Communion - November 8

The emergence of an Anglican Communion is most appropriately dated from the first Lambeth Conference in 1867. Even so, the acceptance of such a communion was not without misgivings in some circles about the relationships of the various components of the now world-wide Anglican Church to each other. What has emerged is a communion of autonomous churches, who nevertheless value their family association as parts of a world-wide communion. The growth of the Anglican Communion has produced its own significant contributors to the witness of faith. Some of these people are commemorated individually in our Calendar, including some from New Zealand who would have a claim to recognition by the whole Anglican Communion: Janani Luwum,Kereopa and Manihera, Frederick Denison Maurice, George Augustus Selwyn, Apolo Kivebulaya,The Martyrs of Uganda, Sadhu Sundar Singh, William Wilberforce, Mary Sumner, John Coleridge Patteson, Henry Martyn, Charles Simeon, and Josephine Butler.Read more...