Twelve members named for C of E commission to promote ‘mutual flourishing’
by Ed Thornton, Church Times:
TWELVE people of “varying backgrounds” have been appointed members of the Standing Commission on the House of Bishops’ Declaration and the Five Guiding Principles, it was announced on Friday.
“The Commission, appointed by the House of Bishops, will support dioceses with the monitoring of the implementation of the House of Bishops Declaration on the Ministry of Bishops and Priests,” a statement from Church House, Westminster, says.
The setting up of the Commission was recommended by the Implementation and Dialogue Group (IDG), established in 2018 in response to the Independent Reviewer’s report of matters surrounding the nomination — and subsequent withdrawal — of the Rt Revd Philip North as Bishop of Sheffield (News, 9 February 2018). It was tasked with reviewing how the House of Bishops’ Declaration and the Five Guiding Principles — part of the settlement that made possible the admission of women to the episcopate — are understood, implemented, and received in the Church.
Last year, the General Synod took note of a report from the IDG on whether the Five Guiding Principles, established in 2014 to enable those unable to receive the ministry of female bishops or priests to flourish within the Church’s life and structures, were still “fit for purpose” (News, 16 July 2021).
The members of the Standing Commission, which will hold its first meeting this month, are:
See also:
Ebbsfleet to be complementarian Evangelical: new Bishop of Oswestry to serve traditional Catholics, by Ed Thornton, Church Times:
It was announced on Thursday that the successor to the Bishop of Maidstone, the Rt Revd Rod Thomas, who provides episcopal ministry to conservative Evangelical parishes whose PCCs have passed resolutions on the ministry of women, will be known as the Bishop of Ebbsfleet, also in Canterbury diocese. Bishop Thomas is due to retire in October.
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