by Francis Martin, Church Times
Archbishop of York offers reassurance that oversight and timetable remains for the decision on church blessings for same-sex couples
THE Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, has announced that he is stepping down as lead bishop for the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) process.
On Facebook on Friday afternoon, he wrote that he was doing so “with a very heavy heart”. He was “hugely grateful to the staff team that I have worked with over the last 18 months and similarly the Working Group members who have given hours of their time to seek an agreed way forward in the Church of England on matters of sexuality, relationships, and marriage. I hope it may yet be possible to reach such an agreement, but I don’t think that can happen under my leadership.”
It has been suggested that Bishop Snow made his decision after it became clear that a majority of bishops did not back his proposals to offer delegated episcopal ministry for churches that opposed the introduction of blessings for same-sex couples, known as Prayers of Love and Faith (PLF)
Joint Statement from the Archbishop of York and Bishop of London