Editing Lambeth Conference (section)

===Fifteenth: 2022===

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* Presided over by [[Justin Welby]]
* Around 660 bishops present<ref name="hereatlast">{{cite web |author1=Pat Ashworth |title=Lambeth Conference is here at last |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/29-july/features/features/lambeth-conference-is-here-at-last |website=[[Church Times]] |access-date=4 August 2022 |date=28 July 2022}}</ref>

The ten-year cycle followed since 1948 would have suggested a Lambeth Conference in 2018. [[Justin Welby]] had replaced Rowan Williams in 2013, and against a backdrop of disagreement within the Anglican Communion over homosexuality, Welby declined to convene a conference until he had visited primates in their own countries,<ref>{{cite news |last=Butter |first=Jan |date=6 October 2014 |title=Abp Welby: 'Next Lambeth Conference a decision for the primates' | url=http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2014/10/abp-welby-next-lambeth-conference-a-decision-for-the-primates.aspx |work=Anglican Communion News Service |access-date=10 July 2015}}</ref> and felt confident that the vast majority of bishops would attend.<ref>{{cite news |last=Conger |first=George |date=30 September 2014 |title=Lambeth Conference cancelled |url=http://anglicanink.com/article/lambeth-conference-cancelled |work=Anglican Ink |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305232721/http://www.anglican.ink/article/lambeth-conference-cancelled |archive-date=5 March 2016 |access-date=15 November 2014}}</ref> Welby appointed a Design Group<ref>Anglican Communion News Service, "Lambeth Design Group puts down foundations for Lambeth 2020 planning" https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/03/lambeth-design-group-puts-down-foundations-for-lambeth-2020-planning.aspx</ref> under the chairmanship of Archbishop [[Thabo Makgoba|Thabo Makoba]] of Cape Town to plan for a conference in 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last=Zink |first=Jesse |date=22 January 2016 |title=If it doesn't work, do something new |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2016/22-january/comment/opinion/if-it-doesn-t-work-do-something-new |newspaper=Church Times |access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=15 January 2016 |title=Communiqué from the Primates of the Anglican Communion |url=http://www.primates2016.org/articles/2016/01/15/communique-primates/ |publisher=Anglican Communion Office |access-date=11 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606164840/http://www.primates2016.org/articles/2016/01/15/communique-primates/ |archive-date=6 June 2017 |url-status=usurped |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Given the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the conference was delayed by two years.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.lambethconference.org/announcements/rescheduling-the-lambeth-conference-to-2022/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200710170100/https://www.lambethconference.org/announcements/rescheduling-the-lambeth-conference-to-2022/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = 10 July 2020 | title = The Lambeth Conference reschedules to 2022 | date = 2020-07-08 | website = Lambeth Conference | access-date = 2020-07-08 }}</ref> With the theme, "God's Church to God's World",<ref>See Stephen Spencer ed., God's Church to God's World: Reports, Addresses and Calls from the Lambeth Conference 2022 (SCM, 2022); Robert S. Heaney, John Kafwanka K and Hilda Kabia eds. (Foreword, Justin Welby), God's Church to God's World (Church Publishing, 2020).</ref> the conference began on 27 July 2022. It lasted for 12 days with around 660 bishops in attendance.<ref name="hereatlast" /><ref name="programme">{{cite web |title=Programme overview and timetable |url=https://www.lambethconference.org/programme/programme-overview/ |website=Lambeth Conference |access-date=5 August 2022}}</ref>

The conference once again included significant discussion of [[Homosexuality and the Anglican Communion|homosexuality]] and [[same-sex marriage]], with a draft 'call'{{efn|It was decided that the 2022 conference would not make resolutions on topics, but rather issue '[[Fifteenth Lambeth Conference#Lambeth Calls|calls]]', declarations which the Anglican Communion could then pray, think and reflect on such that each province could decide on its own response.<ref name=Call>{{cite web |author1=Pat Ashworth |title=Draft Lambeth Conference 'call' threatens to reignite 1998 row over homosexuality |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/29-july/news/world/draft-lambeth-conference-call-threatens-to-reignite-1998-row-over-homosexuality |website=[[Church Times]] |access-date=4 August 2022 |date=22 July 2022}}</ref>}} with similarities to Resolution 1.10 from the 1998 conference being included in the conference's proceedings (which declared gay sex to be a sin).<ref name=Call /><ref name=G1>{{cite web |author1=Harriet Sherwood |title=Justin Welby 'affirms validity' of 1998 gay sex is sin declaration |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/02/justin-welby-affirms-validity-of-1998-declaration-that-gay-sex-is-a-sin |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=4 August 2022 |date=2 August 2022}}</ref> On 2 August, Welby 'affirmed the validity' of Resolution 1.10 saying that it was "not in doubt".<ref name=G1 /> This prompted criticism from several LGBTQ+ activists including [[Jayne Ozanne]] and [[Sandi Toksvig]],<ref name=G1 /><ref>{{cite web |author1=Geneva Abdul |title=Sandi Toksvig says 'lives at stake' after anti-gay Anglican church declaration |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/04/sandi-toksvig-lives-at-stake-anti-gay-anglican-church-declaration-justin-welby |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=4 August 2022 |date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Lily Wakefield |title=Powerful Anglican bishops call on 'homosexual practices' to be rejected because gay sex is a sin |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/02/lambeth-conference-call-human-dignity-anglican-church-lgbtq/ |website=[[PinkNews]] |access-date=4 August 2022 |date=2 August 2022}}</ref> and the signing by 175 bishops and primates of a pro-LGBTQ statement asserting the holiness of the love of all committed same-sex couples.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://opentable.lgbt/our-news/2022/8/3/otn-patron-signs-statement-from-anglican-bishops-to-affirm-and-celebrate-lgbt-people | title=OTN Patron signs statement from Anglican bishops to affirm and celebrate LGBT+ people }}</ref>

In response to the discourse surrounding sexuality at the Conference, the [[University of Kent]] LGBT+ Staff Network organised an 'inclusion march' called the Lambeth Walk, which was attended by over 150 people including LGBT+ bishops and their spouses, followed by the ''Rainbows in Religion'' symposium which included guest speakers [[Jayne Ozanne]] and Dr Angus M Slater.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sandiford |first=Miriam |date=July 29, 2022 |title=Students and staff come together for the Lambeth Walk |url=https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/staff-student-news/2022/07/29/students-and-staff-come-together-for-the-lambeth-walk/# |url-status=live |website=University of Kent}}</ref>