What is Adequate Episcopal Oversight (AEO)?
In their statement of October 2003, the Anglican Primates expressed “particular concern for those who in all conscience feel bound to dissent from the teaching and practice” of provinces or dioceses that contravene the teaching of the Communion. As part of this concern, the Primates as a whole called “on the provinces concerned to make adequate provision for episcopal oversight of dissenting minorities within their own area of pastoral care in consultation with the Archbishop of Canterbury on behalf of the Primates.” Oversightprovided solely by, and potentially manipulated by, offending authorities cannot be deemed acceptable. “Adequate” oversight must be determined by those who are seeking it.
