Not-News Update!

A few weeks ago, I noted that there had been an announcement in the ACA's Northeast Anglican (but apparently nowhere else) of an upcoming meeting of the TAC's College of Bishops to elect a new primate. I could find no announcement of who'd been elected, nor even if the meeting had occurred.

Finally, poking around on the ACA Diocese of the West site, I found a cryptic mention on the Information page of The Most Reverend Shane Janzen, D.D., no title listed, under Traditional Anglican Communion. This took me to Google, where I found this announcement at Abp Janzen's home parish web site:

The Most Reverend Shane Janzen was elected Primate of the world-wide Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) by its governing College of Bishops in Lincoln, England on Friday, October 14, and formally Installed as Primate at the Eucharist held Sunday morning at St. Katherine’s Cathedral Church in Lincoln.

The 57-year old Saanich, British Columbia resident is also Rector of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Evangelist (990 Falmouth Rd in Saanich) and Metropolitan of the Traditional Anglican Communion in Canada (The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada).

Good we could get that cleared up! So far, I have located no equivalent announcement on the ACA web site, nor even on the TAC web site, which still lists Prakash as acting primate. Somehow I don't get a sense of joy at new beginnings here, and I even wonder if the ACA is trying to minimize its involvement with the TAC. "Father" Smuts hasn't updated his blog in over a year, which is probably a symptom of what's become of the Anglo-Catholic project overall.

Abp Janzen is Primate over 10 parishes and missions in the rump ACCC. In addition, the Rt Rev Owen Rhys Williams is now listed as priest in charge at All Saints Fountain Valley, so it looks like he moved down the road after he disappeared from Hollywood. He is also now listed as Ordinary, rather than Episcopal Visitor, of the ACA DOW. On the other hand, Bp Marsh is listed as visiting the St. Augustine of Canterbury mission in Hamilton, Montana this very day -- but isn't this in Bp Williams's territory?

I suspect Bp Marsh trusts neither Williams nor Janzen. They're both terrified of Marsh, I betcha.

UPDATE: My regular correspondent adds:

Well, well, well. This is the clergyman who almost led his parish into the Ordinariate, until he was told that, despite Hepworth's assurances, the fact that he had converted to the Catholic church as an adult (from some kind of evangelical background) before becoming an Anglican and then a "continuing" Anglican disqualified him for ordination on the basis of delict of schism. This led to an abrupt volte-face. His treatment up to that point of those who were hesitating about joining the Ordinariate lacked judgement and charity, in my estimation.

Now he and the bishop on the other Canadian coast have been sharing episcopal oversight of their remaining flock of perhaps 250. The OCSP has many problems but of course even if, say, The Sodality of St Swithun ceases to function its members are now members of the Church and can find their way to a new parish and perhaps even a broader vision of worship and mission. Those who stayed with the "Continuum" are in dire straits.