Wednesday 18 July 2007

Barking and Dagenham Post: Curate forced to play a waiting game

DAGENHAM Parish Church's new curate-in-waiting has been barred from taking up his post after refusing to share communion with the Bishop of Chelmsford.

Richard Wood's ordination ceremony was abandoned as he disagreed with Rt Revd John Gladwin's liberal views on homosexuality.

Church law dating back to 1662 states that no clergyman can be ordained without receiving communion from the serving bishop. Read more

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