[Anglican Communion News Service] The seventeenth meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council – ACC-17 – begins in a month in Hong Kong. The ACC, one of four Instruments of the Anglican Communion, includes archbishops, bishops, priests, and laity from the 40 autonomous churches of the Anglican Communion. The draft agenda for the meeting has just been published. ACC members will be asked to approve the agenda as their first item of business.

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Editor’s note: The Episcopal Church’s three ACC members for this meeting are Oklahoma Bishop Edward J. Konieczny, the Rev. Michael Barlowe (the executive officer of General Convention) and Rosalie Ballentine of the Diocese of the Virgin Islands.