The piece by David Monteith needs to be sent to every bishop in the CofE to start with. And they need to send it every clergy person in their diocese. It should cause us all to hang our head in shame ...

Hooker has no “authority” nor any official status, but is descriptive of the Anglican approach of the Elizabethan era, and the church has continued to find it useful.

The Prime Minister’s Office has announced that the next Suffragan Bishop of Taunton in the diocese of Bath and Wells will be the Ven Fiona Gibson, currently Archdeacon of Ludlow. The Bath and Wells ...

Chine McDonald Financial Times New Archbishop of Canterbury will face old evils Peter Crumpler Christian Today Five reasons why I’m choosing to be hopeful about the new Archbishop of Canterbury Phil ...

on Wednesday, 15 October 2025 at 5.17 pm by Peter Owen categorised as Church of England, News The Church of England issued the press release below this afternoon.

The Church Times has this report: Persuade PCCs to take action if same-sex blessings move forward, Alliance tells its clergy The Alliance document referred to is available here: Alliance Campaign ...

The Very Reverend Mark Bonney has announced that he is to resign the Deanery of Ely next year. He will have served as Dean of Ely for 14 years having taken up the role in 2012, and his retirement in ...

“Is the upcoming appointment of a new Archbishop of Canterbury the last chance saloon for the C of E to save itself?” ...

Very sad. I thought that in the wider world we no longer always insist that “the child must be believed”. My husband once reprimanded some boys who’d been clambering over boats that didn’t belong to ...

Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961, was also Grand Chaplain in the United Grand Lodge of England. Many bishops were thought to be masons then. In recent times, Jonathan Baker ...