Editing Lambeth Conference (section)

===First: 1867===
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[[File:PunchOnTheLambethConf1867.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' cartoon on the subject of the first Lambeth Conference]]
*Presided over by: [[Charles Thomas Longley]]<ref name="Archbishop of Canterbury">{{cite web |title=Lambeth Conference |url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/lambeth-conference.html |publisher=Archbishop of Canterbury |access-date=11 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210203358/http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/lambeth-conference.html |archive-date=10 February 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*76 bishops were present.{{sfn|Davidson|1889|p=13}}

The Archbishop of York and several other English bishops refused to attend because they thought such a conference would cause "increased confusion" about controversial issues.{{sfn|Davidson|1889|p=13}}

The conference began with a celebration of the Holy Communion at which [[Henry John Whitehouse]], the second [[Bishop of Illinois]], preached; Wilberforce of Oxford later described the sermon as "wordy but not devoid of a certain impressiveness".{{sfn|Morgan|1957|p=64}}

The first session convened in the upstairs Dining Room (known as the Guard Room). The session was spent discussing a "preamble to the subsequent resolutions" that would be issued after the conference.{{sfn|Davidson|1889|p=14–15}}

Day two was spent on a discussion of synodical authority concluding that the faith and unity of the Anglican Communion would be best maintained by there being a synod above those of the "several branches".

Day three was given over{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} to discussing the situation in the Diocese of Natal and its controversial bishop [[John William Colenso]] "who had been deposed and excommunicated for heresy because of his unorthodox views of the Old Testament<!-- Typo corrected per MOS:QUOTE -->."<ref name="Archbishop of Canterbury"/> Longley refused to accept a condemnatory resolution proposed by Hopkins, Presiding Bishop of the Americans, but they later voted to note 'the hurt done to the whole communion by the state of the church in Natal'. Of the 13 resolutions adopted by the conference, 2 have direct reference to the Natal situation.

Day four saw the formal signing of the address. There had been no plan for further debate but the bishops unexpectedly returned to the subject of Colenso, delaying the end of the conference. Other resolutions have to do with the creation of new [[Episcopal see|see]]s and [[missionary]] jurisdictions, Commendatory Letters, and a voluntary spiritual tribunal in cases of doctrine and the due subordination of [[synod]]s. It was agreed that the reports of the committees would be received at a final meeting on 10 December by those bishops still in England. On the final day, the bishops attended Holy Communion at Lambeth Parish Church at which Longley presided; Fulford of Montreal, one of the instigators of the original request, preached. No one session of the conference had all the bishops attending although all signed the Address and Longley was authorised to add the names of absent bishops who later subscribed to it. Attending bishops included 18 English, 5 Irish, 6 Scots, 18 American and 24 "Colonial".{{sfn|Davidson|1889|pp=19–20}}

The Latin and Greek texts of the "encyclical" (as it rapidly became known) were produced by Wordsworth of Lincoln.{{sfn|Davidson|1889|pp=92–96}}