Structure
GAFCON is led by a Council of Primates, set up in 2008 at its meeting in Jerusalem. It is now supported by the GAFCON Guarantors who ensure continuity of vision, strategy and resources and the GAFCON Trustees who monitor legal and operational compliance.
The Primates Council is served by a Secretariat led by the General Secretary, Archbishop Ben Kwashi and includes the Operations Manager, Membership Development Secretary, the Communications Manager and the Director of the GAFCON Bishops Training Institute. Global co-ordination is achieved through Liaison Officers in GAFCON affiliated Provinces and elsewhere through a growing network of regional branches.
Primates Council
The Most Rev’d Dr. Foley Beach, Archbishop, Anglican Church in North America, Chairman of Gafcon since 2019
Chairman
Archbishop Beach was the Rector and Pastor of Holy Cross Anglican Church in Loganville, Georgia from its founding in 2004. In 2010 he was consecrated as the first Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South. After election by the ACNA College of Bishops, he also began serving as Archbishop of the Province in 2014.
He is a regular radio broadcaster and shares years of Biblical and theological study in addition to more than 35 years of ministry experience as he shepherds the Anglican Diocese of the South. Reaching out through the church, the radio, the internet, and newspaper columns in clear and concise ways, he brings out the principles of the Word of God so that listeners may apply them in their lives.
Married for more than 30 years, he and his wife, Allison, have two grown children. Archbishop Foley Beach assumed his position as Chairman on 29th April 2019.
The Most Revd. Dr. Laurent Mbanda, Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Rwanda
Chairman
While he was born in Rwanda, he spent a large part of his childhood in Burundi as a refugee. He graduated at the Kenya Highlands Bible College, in Kericho, Kenya, before returning to Burundi, where he was ordained an Anglican priest. He moved to the United States in 1984, where he completed an M.A. in Missiology at the Fuller Seminary’s School of World Missions, in Pasadena, USA, an M.A. in Christian Education at Denver Seminary, USA and a PhD at Trinity International University, in Deerfield, Illinois, USA.
He was consecrated Bishop of the Diocese of Shyiria in March 2010. He was then elected the fourth Archbishop and Primate of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda on 17 January 2018. His enthronement took place on 10 June 2018. He is a longtime supporter of GAFCON.
He is the author of the book ‘Committed to Conflict: The Destruction of the Church in Rwanda’ (1997), co-written with Steve Wamberg, about the Rwandan Genocide. He has also wrriten an autobiography ‘From Barefoot to Bishop’ (2017).
Abp. Glenn Davies
Australian Anglican Bishop
Glenn Naunton Davies (born 1950) is an Australian Anglican bishop. Since August 2022 he has served as bishop of the Diocese of the Southern Cross, an Anglican diocese set up outside of the Anglican Church of Australia. He previously served as the Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of the Province of New South Wales in the Anglican Church of Australia from 23 August 2013 to 26 March 2021.
Abp. Miguel Uchoa
Province of Reconciliation, US
Miguel Uchoa is the Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church in Brazil, Bishop of the Diocese of Recife, and is founder and rector of Holy Spirit Church, Great Recife, a thriving congregation and the largest Anglican Church in Latin America.
He has a post-graduate degree in Theology, and is passionate about the expansion of the Church among the next generation. He has two sons, Gabriel and Matheus, and is married to Juliane. His hobbies include surfing!
Abp. Dr. Ben Kwashi
GEN. SEC – Gafcon
GEN. SEC – Gafcon
Abp. Dr. Robert Gosselin
General Secretary, CEEC Global
Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Middle East & North Africa
Abp. Dr. Robert Gosselin
Abp. Charles Travis
Province of Reconciliation, US
Abp. Charles Travis