Posted on 10/19/2022 6:29:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
It was announced on Monday, October 10, that the late Queen had approved the appointment of The Very Rev. Dr. David Monteith, Dean of Leicester, as Dean of Canterbury. Dr Monteith is in a same-sex civil partnership with David Hamilton, a counselling therapist working in palliative and bereavement care.
Will this not perplex and shock millions of faithful Anglicans across the globe? The cathedral is claimed by the Church of England Establishment to be the mother church of the Anglican Communion, an iconic landmark founded in 597 AD. It is a World Heritage Site unlike any other, having seen some of the most important events in Western Europe including the murder and subsequent martyrdom of Thomas Becket, and the English Reformation.
"I'm delighted by David's appointment as Dean of Canterbury. He has been an exceptional Dean of Leicester -- and his deep faith and spirituality, creativity, and profound sense of service will be a gift to Canterbury Cathedral and all the communities it serves," said the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
Dr Monteith entered into a legal civil partnership in 2008 and was at the time at Holy Trinity, Wimbledon in the Diocese of Southwark. When the Blair Government introduced civil-partnerships, they were specifically made for those in same-sex partnerships. An attempt by the House of Lords to extend them to siblings and others in friendship relationships for the purpose of inheritance and hospital visiting was overturned.
This appointment follows the appointment announced in February this year of Stephen Knott as the Secretary of Appointments for the Archbishops of York and Canterbury. Mr Knott married Major General Alastair Bruce of Crionaich, Governor of Edinburgh Castle, in St John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, with the Bishop of Edinburgh officiating.
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Why I swam the Tiber
That Cathedral is Catholic, temporarily occupied by the pervert thugs who stole it a few centuries ago. I stood in there where JP II stood in 1982 - very moving. He said s the one who opened the door for people like me to go into the Catholic faith.
One queen dies, another one comes along.
The therapist and the dean are both loons.
How England has lost its way. Quite sad
Both the U.S. and the U.K. have sunk into the very decadence in society that also precipitated, among very few other reasons, the Fall of the Roman Empire. A morally decaying state is a leading indicator of its coming downfall. The U.K. is on the slippery slope to being a goner, and we aren’t far behind.
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