What is GAFCON and what happened there?
GAFCON, which stands for the Global Anglican Future Conference, was an initiative led by several Global South Primates that called for a conference of orthodox Anglicans in Jerusalem in June, 2008. While there, bishop, clergy, and lay representatives discussed the crisis of faith in the Anglican Communion and a possible way forward. On the conference’s final day, the delegation of 1,400 ratified the “Jerusalem Declaration.” This document outlined principals of orthodox Anglicanism and also called for a Primatial Council to be formed of those Primates that agreed with the Jerusalem Declaration. The document also called for a new province in North America to be formed from the Common Cause Partnership.
