The fifteenth Lambeth Conference was an assembly of bishops of the Anglican Communion convened by the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, between 27 July and 7 August 2022.
In September 2014, Katharine Jefferts Schori, primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States, advised that she had been told by Archbishop Justin Welby that this conference had been cancelled, and that he would not call one until he was "reasonably certain that the vast majority of bishops would attend.
[6][7] At the same meeting, the US Episcopal Church was suspended from Anglican Communion decision-making on "issues pertaining to doctrine or polity" for three years because of its support for same-sex marriage, a suspension which would end by the time of the conference.
The 1998 conference adopted Resolution 1.10, which called for a "listening process" but stated, in an amendment passed by a vote of 389–190,[10] that "homosexual practice" (not necessarily orientation) is "incompatible with Scripture".
[20] The conference was again boycotted by bishops from Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda, with their primates complaining that the Anglican Communion had "failed to address with remorse and repentance the issues that necessitated our absence" in 2008.
[22] The calls were written over several months[23] by working groups in advance of the conference, released within two weeks of its opening,[3] and debated during closed sessions dedicated for each.
A Sunday service was held at Canterbury Cathedral on 31 July, and Wednesday 3 August was an away day at Lambeth Palace in London, with a focus on the Environment and Sustainable Development call.
Conservative bishops led by Justin Badi Arama, archbishop of South Sudan, amongst others, refused to take communion alongside those they viewed as having departed from biblical teaching on homosexuality.
[29] Welby's remarks sought to describe the status quo within the Anglican Communion, namely one of division, without attempting a resolution: This prompted criticism from several LGBTQ+ equality activists including Jayne Ozanne and Sandi Toksvig,[29][31][32] and the signing by 175 bishops and primates of a pro-LGBTQ statement affirming the holiness of the love of all committed same-sex couples.