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ACNS 3608     |     ACO     |	  7 OCTOBER 2003 

Anglican Communion Office responds to "leaked" document

On 30 September 2003, the Director of Communications for the Anglican
Communion was contacted by a journalist in connection with a claim that
Dr Paul Zahl, Dean of the Cathedral of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama,
had acquired details of the programme for the forthcoming Primates'
Meeting to be held next week (15-16 October).

The Anglican Communion Office can confirm that Dr Zahl was briefly
handed two documents in error at the recent meeting of the
Inter-Anglican Theological Doctrinal Commission in Virginia Theological
Seminary at the beginning of September.

Dr Zahl's comments on the nature and contents of these documents are
misleading, and quotations that appeared in a recent newspaper report
are incorrect. The documents were early draft versions of proposals
being developed for a planning meeting in the ACO in preparation for the
Primates' Meeting.

The Anglican Communion Office has an official role to advise on the
structure of the Primates' Meetings in a way which will facilitate all
primates to have an equal voice in all discussions.

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