The Archdeacon of Cardigan, the Venerable Andrew John, is the Bishop Elect of the Diocese of Bangor.
The announcement was made this afternoon by the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, at the west door of Bangor Cathedral on the third and final day of the meeting of the Electoral College.
The election follows the death of the Rt Rev Anthony Crockett in June, who served as bishop of the diocese from 2004. The new bishop will be the 81st Bishop of Bangor, serving an area stretching across north-west Wales from Holyhead to Llanidloes.
Well, all the speculation about the Dean of St. Alban’s, a notorious advocate of the relativist gospel and pro-gay theology, being chosen turns out to have been just that, speculation. Fortunately, it didn’t happen. The AC may have dodged another bullet, for now.
David Handy+
It must to be a step down to go from the Archdeacon of Cardigan to the Bishop of Bangor.
Venerable Andrew John…that name sure does sound familiar, but I am not placing him.
[blockquote] It must to be a step down to go from the Archdeacon of Cardigan to the Bishop of Bangor. [/blockquote]
Why?
#1 Rev Handy
What do you think might have happened if there had been no speculation? Seems to me that +Barry and the Church in Wales did some quick back-peddling from his prior statement that he would be prepared to consecrate a gay bishop a few weeks before. But what do I know?
One wishes the new bishop of Bangor well in the place to which God has called him. My parents experience of visiting a church in his diocese was a model of welcome which the rest of us could learn from.
Pageantmaster (#5),
I won’t speculate about what might have happened without all the public speculation and lobbying for the Dean of St. Alban’s, Jeffrey John. Except to say that I suspect the liberals were trying to soften public opposition in advance, and I think the tactic may have backfired and instead caused an uproar, or stiffened resistance within the small group of 46 electors.
But who knows? I certainly don’t, on this side of the Atlantic.
However, I DO think that ++Barry Morgan should be held accountable for his pro-gay rhetoric. And the other members of the Windsor Commission (or technically, the Lambeth Commission on Communion that produced the Windsor Report) should publicly reprimand the Archbishop of Wales for breaking ranks and publicly advocating the consecration of another openly gay bishop in the AC, in clear and blatant opposition to the call for a moratorium on that in the WR.
And IF the ABoC is really serious about enforcing such a moratorium (which I doubt), then he too should rebuke his successor, and do so publicly. But I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.
David Handy+
#6 Rev. Handy
I am not sure how long +Barry has to go in office but with his efforts to ramrod women bishops with no provision for dissenters through the Church in Wales and now this, anyone would think that he was getting demob happy and seeking [like +Andrew Hutchings] to notch up something for a legacy, as usual leaving someone else to clean up the mess.
“But I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen”
Oh dear no – we can’t risk you going blue Rev. Handy.
#4, the Archdeacon of Cardigan is one of the greatest sounding titles ever invented by man; while the Bishop of Bangor is one of the worst. It’s all in the ear, man. When you were a young boy wouldn’t you much rather have been the Archdeacon of Cardigan than the Bishop of Bangor.
Ah, Phil, I see what you’re saying. But for a true Welshman to be archdeacon of a place which is an English word for a garment of clothing could not compare with being bishop of such a wonderful Welsh word as Bangor (at least the way a North Walian pronounces it) – and surely bishop of the most dramatic and beautiful diocese in the province, to boot.