Justin Welby conducts wedding of his divorced aide
by Steve Doughty, Mailonline:
The Archbishop of Canterbury has conducted the wedding of a divorcee in a sign of support for those who wish to remarry in church.
Dr Justin Welby presided over the ceremony at Lambeth Palace where one of his senior staff, Ailsa Anderson, married journalist Simon Cole.
Miss Anderson, Dr Welby’s head of media relations and former press secretary to the Queen, is believed to be the first divorcee to be married by an archbishop of Canterbury in recent times.
Church of England rules state that remarriage of a divorcee whose former spouse is still living is ‘exceptional’. It insists divorcees are asked a series of questions designed to ensure their previous marriage has been fully resolved and ‘past hurts’ have been healed.
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