Archbishops launch investigation into Philip North row after ‘highly individualised’ attacks

Mar 24, 2017 by

by Harry Farley, Christian Today:

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have launched a probe into a Church scandal that forced a bishop to decline a promotion amid accusations of ‘sexism’ and ‘highly individualised’ attacks.

Justin Welby and John Sentamu have asked Sir Philip Mawer, the Church of England’s official investigator, to examine all the steps that led to Philip North, currently Bishop of Burnley, to withdraw from his promotion to Bishop of Sheffield.

‘The recent events surrounding the nomination of Bishop Philip North as Bishop of Sheffield, including his withdrawal from the process, have understandably raised great concern amongst many in the Church of England,’ they said on Friday.

‘Some of those concerns relate to whether the nomination itself, and the procedure leading up to it,’ they say in a letter to Sir Philip.

But ‘others are about what happened once the nomination had been announced’.

Bishop North is from the Church’s Anglo-Catholic wing and deeply opposed to women’s ordination.

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