After months of speculation over their future, two Provincial Episcopal Visitors (PEVs) ”” the Bishop of Ebbsfleet, the Rt Revd Andrew Burnham, and the Bishop of RichÂborough, the Rt Revd Keith Newton ”” announced this week that they are resigning to take up the Pope’s offer of joining the Ordinariate.
They will be accompanied by the Bishop of Fulham, the Rt Revd John Broadhurst, who had announced his intention to enter the Ordinariate at Forward in Faith’s National AsÂsembly last month… and two retired bishops, the Rt Revd Edwin Barnes, a former Bishop of Richborough, and the Rt Revd David Silk, a former Bishop of Ballarat in Australia, now an honÂorary assistant bishop in the diocese of Exeter.
The Archbishop of Canterbury said that it was “with regret” that he had accepted the two PEVs’, or flying bishops’, resignations. He wished them well in their next stage of ministry, and thanked them for their service in the Church of England. He confirmed that he would “set in train the process for filling the vacant sees” of both flying bishops.
Read it all.
Church Times–Flying bishops move as eleventh hour approaches
After months of speculation over their future, two Provincial Episcopal Visitors (PEVs) ”” the Bishop of Ebbsfleet, the Rt Revd Andrew Burnham, and the Bishop of RichÂborough, the Rt Revd Keith Newton ”” announced this week that they are resigning to take up the Pope’s offer of joining the Ordinariate.
They will be accompanied by the Bishop of Fulham, the Rt Revd John Broadhurst, who had announced his intention to enter the Ordinariate at Forward in Faith’s National AsÂsembly last month… and two retired bishops, the Rt Revd Edwin Barnes, a former Bishop of Richborough, and the Rt Revd David Silk, a former Bishop of Ballarat in Australia, now an honÂorary assistant bishop in the diocese of Exeter.
The Archbishop of Canterbury said that it was “with regret” that he had accepted the two PEVs’, or flying bishops’, resignations. He wished them well in their next stage of ministry, and thanked them for their service in the Church of England. He confirmed that he would “set in train the process for filling the vacant sees” of both flying bishops.
Read it all.