Document Library

This Reader contains background reading for the Lambeth Conference. A number of the papers have been published in other places and at other times. The papers are collected together and re-published in this volume for the convenience of those who will be attending the Lambeth Conference. All the material is the product of particular Anglican Communion groups or networks, or has been written particularly for this Reader

The Lambeth Conference of 1988 came at a critical time for the coherence and unity of the Anglican Communion as a whole. The bishops found themselves facing the imminent possibility of one of the Provinces ordaining a woman to the episcopate, and had to address the challenge of how to maintain the highest degree of communion with one another and how to strengthen their commitment to one another despite differences in principle and practice

Lambeth Conference 1988 Resolutions

Resolution 1 of the Lambeth Conference 1988

Report of the working party appointed by the Primates of the Anglican Communion. Prepared to aid discussion in preparation of the Lambeth Conference 1988

Lambeth Conference 1978 Resolutions

Resolution 20 of the Lambeth Conference 1978 

Resolution 21 of the Lambeth Conference 1978 

Resolution 22 of the Lambeth Conference 1978