Anglican Consultative Council (ACC)
1969-
Group photo of the delegates and guests at the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Accra, Ghana ~ 16 Feb. 2023
Bishop Graham Tomlin addresses members of the Anglican Consultative Council in Accra, Ghana ~ 14 Feb. 2023
Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury and a group of Primates at the eighteenth Anglican Consultative Council at the Marriott Hotel Accra, Ghana ~ 13 Feb. 2023
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, delivers his presidential address to members of the Anglican Consultative Council during their 18th plenary meeting in Accra, Ghana ~ 12 Feb. 2023
The ecumenical guests with Archbishop Justin Welby at the ACC meeting in Lusaka ~ Apr. 2016
Participants at the ACC meeting in Lusaka studied, worshipped, and engaged on issues theologically ~ Apr. 2016
Series: Ecumenical Advisory Group (-1998), IATDC (1976-), IASCER (2000-2008), IASCUFO (2008-)
The Anglican Consultative Council is not an international synod. It has no legal power over member churches of the Anglican Communion, which are autonomous and independent-yet-interdependent. The ACC is a consultative body, and one of four Instruments of Communion, or Instruments of Unity, in the Anglican Communion, alongside the Lambeth Conference, the Primates’ Meeting and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Plenary sessions of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) take place every two or three years. Representatives from each of the 42 provinces (member churches) of the Anglican Communion are invited to gather together for prayer, worship, Bible study, and discussion on matters of common concern, to promote the unity and purposes of the Churches of the Anglican Communion in mission, evangelism, ecumenical relations, communication, administration and finance.
The role of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) is to facilitate the co-operative work of the churches of the Anglican Communion, exchange information between the Provinces and churches, and help to co-ordinate common action. It advises on the organisation and structures of the Communion, and seeks to develop common policies with respect to the world mission of the Church, including ecumenical matters. The ACC membership includes from one to three persons from each province. Where there are three members, there is a bishop, a priest and a lay person. Where fewer members are appointed, preference is given to lay membership.
Website: anglicancommunion.org
NOTE: The following list includes all documents in our ACC fonds, sorted by category and date.
In addition to documents held in the current fonds, there are also documents specifically authored by ACC.
Letters, addresses, & greetings
Responses to Agreed Statements
Minutes
- Resolutions of ACC-1
5 Mar. 1971
- Resolutions of ACC-2
Dublin, Ireland, 27 July 1973
- Resolutions of ACC-3
Trinidad and Tobago, 2 Apr. 1976
- Resolutions of ACC-4
London, Ontario, 18 May 1979
- Resolutions of ACC-5
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 18 Sept. 1981
- Resolutions of ACC-6
Badagry, Nigeria, 20 July 1984
- Resolutions of ACC-7
Singapore, 1987
- ACC 7 – Section III: Ecumenical Relations
Ecumenical Advisory Group ~ Singapore, Apr. 1987 ~ ARCIC-II 68I
- Resolutions of ACC-8
Wales, 24 Aug. 1990
- Resolutions of ACC-9
Cape Town, South Africa, 22 Jan. 1993
- Resolutions of ACC-10
Panama, 18 Oct. 1996
- Resolutions of ACC-11
Dundee, Scotland, 25 Sept. 1999
- Resolutions of ACC-12
Hong Kong, 26 Sept. 2002
- Resolutions of ACC-13
Nottingham, England, 28 June 2005
- ACC Resolution 14.01: Ecumenical Affairs
Kingston, Jamaica, 11 May 2009
- Resolutions of ACC-14
Kingston, Jamaica, 13 May 2009
- Resolutions of ACC-15
Aukland, New Zealand, 7 Nov. 2012
- Instruments, Gifts, Signs and Stewardship
IASCUFO ~ 2013
- Intentional Discipleship in a World of Differences
IASCUFO ~ Lusaka, Zambia, Apr. 2016 ~ IASCUFO Report to ACC-16
- Receiving One Another’s Ordained Ministries
IASCUFO ~ Apr. 2016
- ACC Resolution 16.17: Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
Lusaka, Zambia, 19 Apr. 2016
- Resolutions of ACC-16
Lusaka, Zambia, 19 Apr. 2016
- Resolutions of ACC-17
Hong Kong, 2019
- Unity, Faith and Order: Report to ACC 17
IASCUFO ~ Hong Kong, 1 May 2019
- Unity, Faith and Order: Report to ACC 18
IASCUFO ~ Accra, Ghana, 12 Feb. 2023
Reports
Study papers
Miscellaneous documents