in the Anglican Communion to reaffirmed “the standard of Christian teaching on matters of human sexuality expressed in the 1998 Lambeth Resolution 1.10, It also repeated the position stated at the 2005 Primates' Meeting, that the Episcopal Church (USA) and the Anglican Church of Canada needed to "voluntarily withdraw their members" from the ACC—including its "Standing Committee and the Inter-Anglican Finance and Administration Committee" until the next Lambeth Conference in 2008. 2016 The 2016 meeting of the ACC made its Resolutions against a background of contentious debates and divided votes regarding homosexuality in the 1998 Lambeth Conference and the boycott by 230 bishops including six Prelates of the 2008 Lambeth Conference over the same issue. It seemed after these two conferences that the homosexuality issue might break up the Anglican Communion. Against this background, continued unity of the Lambeth Communion was endorsed by an ACC Resolution that affirmed “the commitment of the Primates of the Anglican Communion to walk together; and commits to continue to seek appropriate ways for the provinces of the Anglican Communion to walk together with each other and with the Primates and other Instruments of Communion”. List of Anglican Consultative Council meetings Limuru, Kenya (1971) Dublin, Ireland (1973) Trinidad and Tobago (1976) London, Ontario, Canada (1979) Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England (1981) Badagry, Nigeria (1984) Singapore (1987) Wales (1990) Cape Town, South Africa (1993) Panama (1996) Dundee, Scotland (1999) Hong Kong (2002) Nottingham, England (2005) Kingston, Jamaica (2009) Auckland, New Zealand (2012) Lusaka, Zambia (2016) Hong Kong (2019) Accra, Ghana (2023) Secretary General The Council employs a Secretary General as a sort of ambassador of and between the Anglican churches; they are based at the Anglican Communion Office in London and sometimes (erroneously) referred to as Secretary General of the Anglican Communion. Prior to the creation of the ACC, there was a similar post called "Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion"; the last "Anglican Executive Officer" became the first Secretary-General and the Anglican Communion Office numbers Idowu-Fearon as the seventh Secretary-General. Executive Officers 1 January 19601964: Stephen F. Bayne Jr., former Bishop of Olympia, was also responsible for the American Episcopal churches of Europe 1 November 19641969: Ralph Dean, Bishop of Cariboo, Canada, took leave from his diocese (but retained the See) in order to serve as Executive Officer, based in his native London 1 May 19691971: John Howe, former Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, Scotland Secretaries