Conservative Anglican vicar criticises church leaders for appointing gay bishop

Sep 4, 2016 by Jill

from BBC World Service:

Bishop Nicholas Chamberlain’s revelation raises tensions between traditionalists and liberals in the Church of England. The conservative Anglican group Gafcon has said that appointing a gay man as the Bishop of Grantham was a “major error.” Reverend Canon Dr Gavin Ashenden, a Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen and a vicar in Jersey, says that the leader of the Church of England took a risk by making Nicholas Chamberlain a bishop and placed ‘difficult stresses on a church which is hanging together by the skin of its teeth.’

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