Moreover, he stressed that the committee's job is "distilling our experience of many years, to be faithful to the church and set out the thinking behind some of the recent actions."
Dean Elliott said to the Anglican Journal, the Canadians are not of one mind on issues of human sexuality. "There is a variety of views within our presentation and within the Episcopal Church presenters. Everyone (on the committee) wants each person to present out of the integrity of their own views and the community from which they come. The Canadian church has found ways to walk together even when we differ on important matters," he said.
The ACC meets every three years in various part of the world. It consists of lay, clergy and Episcopal members and is a forum where all Anglican Provinces can share and exchange information and coordinate common actions. In 2002, it was held in Hong Kong. The upcoming ACC meeting will last for 10 days and will be held at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, 19th-28th June.
This year's meeting is one of the most open since the formation of ACC in 1968, according to Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion. The worship sessions will be open to the public and all council members will be eating together at the university dining hall. The council meeting will be held in a lecture theatre and there will be a visitors' section there.
Delegates and Presenters from the Episcopal Church of the USA:
Delegates
- Bishop Suffragan Catherine Roskam of New York
- Josephine Hicks of North Carolina
- Rev. Robert Sessum of Lexington
Presenters
- Bishop Neil Alexander of Atlanta
- Bishop Charles Jenkins of Louisiana
- Bishop Suffragan Catherine Roskam of New York
- Rev. Michael Battle, academic vice president of Virginia Theological Seminary
- Rev. Susan Russell, president of Integrity and an assisting priest at All Saints' Church in Pasadena, California
- Jane Tully, founder of CFLAG (Clergy Families of Lesbians and Gays) and a parishioner of St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City
Delegates and Presenters from the Anglican Church of Canada:
Delegates
- Bishop Susan Moxley, suffragan of the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
- Canon Allen Box, a priest in the Diocese of Ottawa
- Suzanne Lawson, a layperson in the Diocese of Toronto and former member of national staff
Presenters
-The Very Rev. Peter Elliott, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver and prolocutor of General Synod
- Canon Robert Falby, Chancellor and lay canon of the Diocese of Toronto and a member of General Synod
- The Rev. Dr. Stephen Andrews, President and Vice-Chancellor of Thorneloe University, member of General Synod for the Diocese of Algoma and a member of the Primate's Theological Commission
- Ms. Maria Jane Highway, a member of the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous partner to General Synod from the Diocese of Brandon and a member of the Faith, Worship and Ministry Committee of General Synod
