Posted on 02/08/2022 7:12:12 PM PST by marshmallow
LEICESTER, United Kingdom — A fourth Anglican bishop in a year has been received into the Catholic Church.
It was confirmed by the Church Times – an independent newspaper covering the Church of England – that the former bishop of Chester, Peter Forster, became Catholic last year.
The three other Church of England bishops to become Catholic last year are the former Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali; the former Bishop of Ebbsfleet, Jonathon Goodall; and the former Bishop of Burnley, John Goddard.
Foster was received into the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh in Scotland, where he and his wife now reside.
Forster retired from the Diocese of Chester in 2019, having been the longest serving Church of England bishop. There were complaints he mishandled an allegation of abuse against a priest of the diocese in 2009, and in testimony to the Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), he admitted he made a “misjudgment” and that “it wasn’t handled properly at the time.”
While a Church of England Bishop, Forster served as a member of the English Anglican-Roman Catholic Committee. While opposed to efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in the UK and the ordination of practicing homosexual clergy, he had supported the ordination of women, and the first woman bishop in the Church of England came from his diocese.
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This re-enforces the sense that there is no where else to go.
Church of England is dying in UK. Apostate sects do that. The Anglican Church is robust and growing in the South, ie Africa, where their leaders are faithful to the Gospel, not Canterbury.
Must be an Anglican swim meet at the Tiber this year.
Out of the fire, and into the frying pan. Not sure if these fellows realize that all the stuff they’re fleeing from in Anglicanism is more or less on the to-do list of Bergoglio and his minions.
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