The Lambeth Conference 2022

The Lambeth Conference takes place approximately every ten years. The first was held in 1867.

Bishops from around the Anglican Communion are invited to attend by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

This time the Lambeth Conference is in Canterbury from 27 July to 8 August 2022. Its theme is “God’s Church for God’s World: walking, listening and witnessing together”.

The staging of the twice-delayed Lambeth conference, which this week sees bishops from the Anglican communion assemble in Canterbury for the first time since 2008, should be a cause for celebration. Postponed in 2020 due to the pandemic, it offers representatives from more than 40 national churches around the world the chance to reconnect in person.

The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has expressed the hope that it will be an occasion for fruitful dialogue, as Anglicans negotiate the challenges of creating “a postcolonial model” for a communion created in the era of empire.

Our very own Bishops from the Church of Ceylon, Rt. Revd Keerthisiri Fernando (Bishop of Kurunegala) and Rt. Revd. Dushantha Rodrigo (Bishop of Colombo) left Sri Lanka a few days ago to join other Bishops from across the communion, at the Lambeth Conference