Clergy to thrash
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it out together
Churchmen from all over the South Pacific were due to meet near Popondetta, in Papua, in January to talk about the life and work of the Anglican church in their areas. The South Pacific Anglican Conference, which they were attending, meets every three years.
This time it consisted of the bishops, with appointed clergy and laity, from the dioceses of Papua-New Guinea, Melanesia and Polynesia. There were also observers from the Torres Straits Mission of the diocese of Carpentaria.
The conference is an advisory body. Members pool and ex change ideas and generally thrash out what the dioceses can use fully do together. Among other things, they were expected this time to_ discuss their relation ships with other denominations.