Ed: The actual title of this item is rather misleading!
Analysis: changing the way the Church of England chooses bishops
Monday, 18th June 2007. 4:42pm
By: Jonathan Petre.
WHAT are bishops for, and do we need so many of them?
This question, or a more colourful version of it, has often popped unbidden into the thoughts of exasperated parish clergy.
Now, however, it also appears to be a topic much on the minds of the bishops themselves. The looming prospect that dioceses and bishoprics could face a Beeching-style axe is concentrating minds wonderfully, it seems.
Under legislation expected to receive Parliamentary approval and Royal assent this summer, a national body will be given sweeping powers to recommend the closure or reorganisation of dioceses and the scrapping of suffragan or assistant bishop posts. Read more
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