New evangelical Bishop

David Baker  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Jan 2015
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New evangelical Bishop

Maidstone comes under Canterbury

The Church of England is to keep its promise and appoint a conservative evangelical bishop who takes a complementarian view of men’s and women’s ministry.

In a press statement it was announced that ‘the Dioceses Commission unanimously agreed with a proposal received from the Archbishop of Canterbury to fill the vacant see of Maidstone. The see, which had been vacant since 2009, had been identified by the archbishop as one that should be filled by a bishop who takes a conservative evangelical view on headship.’

Conservative position

The statement continued: ‘In agreeing with the proposal to fill the see the Commission was conscious of the needs of the national church for a member of the College of Bishops to be able to act as an advocate for those who hold a conservative position on headship’.

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