Resolutions of the Lambeth Conference of 1948
The resolutions passed by the Anglican bishops who met at Lambeth in 1948, their first conference since 1930. They are the bishops’ own words on the questions put to them, and bind no member church.
Read the text at anglicancommunion.org ↗All the resolutions of 1948 in one file (Anglican Communion Office, PDF) ↗Resolution 113 as it stood in the former document library (Internet Archive copy) ↗
The Lambeth Conference is the meeting of the bishops of the Anglican Communion, called by the Archbishop of Canterbury about once in ten years. Its resolutions express the mind of the bishops present. They have no force of law in any member church until that church adopts them.
The conference of 1948 answered two questions that had arisen since the bishops last met in 1930. Resolutions 113 to 115 reply to the Chinese church’s question whether a deaconess might be ordained priest, raised by the First Woman Is Ordained an Anglican Priest. Resolutions 52 to 54 deal with the new the Church of South India Unites Four Traditions and record that the bishops were divided about the standing of its ministers.
Cited in
- 25 January 1944, firm date
- 27 September 1947, firm date