Editing Lambeth Conference (section)

===Twelfth: 1988===
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*Presided over by [[Robert Runcie]]
*518 bishops present
The conference dealt with the question of the inter-relations of Anglican international bodies and issues such as marriage and family, human rights, poverty and debt, environment, militarism, justice and peace. Women's ordination to the priesthood was also a major topic of discussion. Archbishop [[Michael Peers]], Bishop [[Graham Leonard]], Bishop [[Samir Kafity]], and the Reverend [[Nan Arrington Peete]] spoke to the assembly on the topic.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=GARRETT|first=SAMUEL M.|date=1989|title=Three Weeks in Canterbury: An Interpretive Chronicle of the Twelfth Lambeth Conference, 1988|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42610341|journal=Anglican and Episcopal History|volume=58|issue=3|pages=291–325|jstor=42610341|issn=0896-8039}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=LYTLE|first=GUY FITCH|date=1989|title=Concluding Thoughts After Lambeth: Reactions to the Event and Its Final Report|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42610348|journal=Anglican and Episcopal History|volume=58|issue=3|pages=384–408|jstor=42610348|issn=0896-8039}}</ref> Peete, who was ordained in the Episcopal Church USA, was the first female priest to speak at the Lambeth Conference.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Reverend Nan Arrington Peete's Biography|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/reverend-nan-arrington-peete|access-date=2021-03-02|website=The HistoryMakers|language=en}}</ref>  The conference decided that "each province respect the decision of other provinces in the ordination or consecration of women to the episcopate."

At previous Lambeth Conferences, only bishops were invited to attend, but all members of the Anglican Consultative Council and representative bishops from the "Churches in Communion" (i.e. the Churches of Bangladesh, North and South India and Pakistan) were invited to attend.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL2160284620080721 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717144940/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL2160284620080721 | url-status=dead | archive-date=17 July 2012 | work=Reuters | title=FACTBOX-What is the Lambeth Conference? | date=21 July 2008}}</ref>