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99th Bishop of Lichfield named

Posted on March 2, 2016 by The_Elves

The Right Reverend Dr Michael Ipgrave has been named as the new Bishop of Lichfield.

He assumes responsibility for one of the Church of England’s largest dioceses, leading an episcopal team with the Bishops of Wolverhampton, Stafford and Shrewsbury.

Bishop Michael (57), the current Bishop of Woolwich in the Diocese of Southwark, will be the ninety-ninth Bishop of Lichfield, in a line going back to St Chad in the seventh century. He succeeds the Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill, who retired last year.

Today, Bishop Michael is visiting Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Little Drayton and Lichfield on a tour meeting churches and communities across the Diocese.

In this personal welcome message to the Diocese, Bishop Michael says:

“I’ve had twelve wonderful years in London but I am so looking forward to coming back to the Midlands. Lichfield is the mother church of the Midlands, and the city of St Chad, a man of great humility and profound Christian faith.”

Read it all and the official announcement is here

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One comment on “99th Bishop of Lichfield named”

  1. Pageantmaster Ù† says:
    March 3, 2016 at 4:45 pm

    Well

    Church Times April 3rd, 2012

    About 100 Evangelical clergy and laity from Southwark diocese met the Bishop, the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, on Monday, to protest about the lack of Evangelicals in senior clergy posts.

    Bishop Chessun asked the Southwark Diocesan Evangelical Union to arrange the meeting (News, 23 March). Evangelicals are unhappy that, in the past year, six senior positions have been given to clerics whom they consider to be liberal, particularly on the issue of sexuality: the Bishop of Croydon, the Rt Revd Jonathan Clark; the Bishop of Woolwich, Dr Michael Ipgrave; the Dean of Southwark, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn; the acting Arch­deacon of Southwark, Canon Dianna Gwilliams; the Sub-Dean, Canon Bruce Saunders; and the Diocesan Director of Ordinands, Canon Leanne Roberts.

    The Revd Stephen Kuhrt, Priest-in-Charge of Christ Church, New Malden, and the chairman of Fulcrum, who attended the meeting, said on Monday evening: “A great deal of concern was expressed at how out of touch Southwark diocese has become with Evangelicals, and particularly with the promo­tion of so many who are working to revise the Church’s traditional position on sexuality. . .

    Sad end for all the good work and witness of the excellent and faithful Bishop Jonathan Gledhill.