Nine men will be ordained on Thursday as the first deacons and priests of the Anglican Mission in England (AMiE), the breakaway conservative Evangelical movement that seeks to plant Anglican churches in England but outside the Church of Eng\u00ad\u00adland.<\/p>\n
The nine are due to be ordained by the Rt Revd Andy Lines \u2014 who was con\u00ad\u00adsecrated missionary bishop earlier this year by the GAFCON-aligned Anglican Church in North America (News, 7 July<\/a>) \u2014 at a service in a Baptist church in east London.<\/p>\n Until now, every clergyman as\u00ad\u00adsociated with the AMiE has come from the C of E, or been ordained by Anglican bishops overseas. Bishop Lines, who is mission director of Crosslinks, a mission agency, had permission to officiate in the diocese of Southwark until he allowed it to lapse in June.<\/p>\n The nine men \u2014 eight will be ordained deacon, and one as priest \u2014 are the first not to have been trained by the C of E. All work in AMiE churches.<\/p>\n