Network Makes Case for Native Clergy

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The Anglican Indigenous Network has put itself on a new and firm bureaucratic footing in order to push forward on its number one concern--the faster ordination of more native priests.

At its biennial meeting, held May 17-22 in Vancouver, 25 delegates from five regions around the Pacific chose a five-member executive to back up the longtime secretary-general, Malcolm Naea Chun of Hawaii.

Representatives from Canada, the United States, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Australia and the Torres Straits Islands also promised to fund an annual budget, starting at $20,000 US, the first such budget for the organization begun in 1991.

The question of native ordination …