The Cambridge Accord was an attempt to reach agreement on at least the

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of homosexual people, notwithstanding controversy within the

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about Anglican views of homosexuality. It was published in the wake of the controversial Resolution 1.10 passed at the Lambeth Conference of 1998, which stated that "homosexual practice" is "incompatible with Scripture". The Cambridge Accord was published in October 1999 from the Episcopal Divinity School at

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and circulated for adoption by bishops of the Anglican Communion. The Cambridge Accord proposed that: Its author was the Right Reverend Steven Charleston, President and Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Signatories

Nineteen Anglican bishops in the UK signed up to the Cambridge Accord, including

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, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury. Four bishops in the UK expressly declined to sign:

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, who was Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of Lambeth Resolution 1.10 in 1998 and at the time of the Cambridge Accord itself; David Hope, who was then

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and was alleged to be gay in 1995 by an

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outing campaign; the Anglo-Catholic Eric Kemp; and John Sentamu, who later became

References

External links

{{Portal, Christianity
Full text of the Cambridge Accord
Canon law of the Anglican Communion LGBT and Anglicanism