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The meeting of Anglican Primates, the senior bishops of the Anglican Provinces, took place in Canterbury between Monday 2 October and Friday 6 October at the invitation of the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. 

Le Rassemblement des Primats anglicans, les principaux évêques des Provinces anglicanes, a eu lieu à Cantorbéry du lundi 2 octobre au vendredi 6 octobre à l’invitation du Très Révérend et Très Honorable Justin Welby, Archevêque de Cantorbéry. 

O encontro dos Primazes Anglicanos, os bispos seniores das Províncias Anglicanas, aconteceu em Cantuária entre os dias 2 a 6 de outubro passado. O convite foi feito por sua Graça Honorável Justin Welby, Arcebispo de Cantuária. 

La reunión de Primados Anglicanos, de las Provincias Anglicanas, tuvo lugar en Cantórbery entre el lunes 2 y el viernes 6 de octubre por invitación del Reverendísimo y Muy Honorable Justin Welby, Arzobispo de Cantórbery.

Mkutano wa Watumishi wa Anglican, Askofu Mkuu wa Mikoa ya Anglican, ilifanyika huko Canterbury kati ya Jumatatu 2 Oktoba na Ijumaa 6 Oktoba kwa mwaliko wa Mchungaji wengi na Mheshimiwa Justin Welby, Askofu Mkuu wa Canterbury.

I bring you greetings from the wider Anglican Communion; and they are real greetings in the Spirit-- warm and heartfelt. You – the Church of England – can never be just one of the 38 provincial churches of the Anglican Communion. As the very word ‘anglicana’ implies, there is a living tradition of faith in the Gospel as this church has received it, from the missionary work of St Augustine of Canterbury 1,420 years ago, to the particular experience of renewal in the English Reformation and beyond.