500 years later
Posted on 08/27/2025 2:09:30 PM PDT by Cronos
Archbishop Vann, who has served as the Bishop of Monmouth for five years, secured a two-thirds majority vote from members of the Church in Wales Electoral College during its meeting in Chepstow last week.
A Groundbreaking Appointment She becomes the first woman to serve as an archbishop in the UK and the first openly LGBTQ+ Primate (head of a province, or region, like Wales) in the Anglican Communion – the international family of Anglican churches. Vann lives with her civil partner of 30 years, Wendy Diamond.
She now takes over as the 15th Archbishop of Wales, succeeding Bishop Andrew John, who resigned in July following a scandal involving a drunken sexual assault at the cathedral in Bangor. While John was not implicated in the incident, he stepped down amid criticism over his alleged failure to take appropriate action.
“The first thing I shall need to do is to ensure that the issues which have been raised in the last six months are properly addressed and that I work to bring healing and reconciliation, and to build a really good level of trust across the Church and the communities the Church serves,” said Vann following her election.
Widespread Praise from Progressives Jayne Ozanne, a prominent LGBTQ+ rights campaigner within the Anglican Church, welcomed the historic appointment.
“Archbishop Cherry is a woman of deep faith, integrity and compassion, who knows what it is to be on the receiving end of prejudice and discrimination because of her sexuality,” she told The Tablet.
Ozanne added that Vann’s election would bring hope and joy “to all those across the wider Anglican Communion who long for a Church that respects and affirms the dignity of all, independent of their sexuality or gender.”
Backlash from Conservative Anglicans Conservative Anglican leaders around the world, however, reacted strongly against the news. Gafcon, a coalition of Anglican leaders—many from Africa—who oppose the inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in church leadership, condemned what it called a “grievous” event and “another painful nail in the coffin of Anglican orthodoxy.”
“By celebrating this election and her immoral same-sex relationship, the Canterbury Communion has again bowed to worldly pressure that subverts God’s good word,” said Bishop Laurent Mbanda, the Rwandan Chairman of the Gafcon Primates Council in a statement.
“We must stand against the relentless pressure of Anglican revisionists who blatantly impose their immorality upon Christ’s precious church,” he asserted. “We cannot sit on our hands and let this apostasy continue.”
A Longstanding Divide in the Church Conservative Anglicans have long threatened to break away from the Anglican Communion. Tensions intensified in 2003 when Gene Robinson, who was in a same-sex relationship, was elected Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the US Episcopal Church.
The election of Archbishop Cherry Vann represents both a historic milestone and a flashpoint in the ongoing battle for LGBTQ+ inclusion and dignity within the Anglican Church.
500 years later
History, Baby!
So, how do you say “cunnilingus” in Welsh?
The Anglican Church in Wales (The Church in Wales) had approximately 42,441 members on its electoral roll by 2018, representing about 1.4% of the total Welsh population.
The number of registered members on the electoral roll has dropped substantially, from over 91,000 in 1996 to just over 42,000 in 2018.
at one point Wales was noted for its deep religiously, refer to the Caedfael series of historical novels
They can have their fun now. Because when the Muslims take over, Archbishop Vann will be flung off a rooftop.
It’s the traditional Muslim way of handling tricky theological disputes.
That almost seems quaint by comparison.
And now more Anglicans will return to the patriarchal traditions of the Catholic Church.
What took them so long? They are running out of firsts for all the losers in the world.
Save the Wales....collect the set.
Anglican leaders haven’t been Christian since before the sexual “revolution”.
Anglican = atheist
These Satanists twist everything, starting with the concept of love. When God said love your enemy, He wasn't calling for an orgy.
Haha, well played, sir.
And people wonder why I refuse to go to church. I’ve been seeing this happening for 40 years. Satan is taking over the churches and the masses just go with the flow.
Not I...
No no....modernist according to Sir Humphrey
James Hacker: Humphrey, what’s a Modernist in the Church of England?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Ah, well, the word “Modernist” is code for non-believer.
James Hacker: You mean an atheist?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, Prime Minister. An atheist clergyman couldn’t continue to draw his stipend. So, when they stop believing in God, they call themselves “Modernists”.
James Hacker: How could the Church of England suggest an atheist as Bishop of Bury St Edmunds?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well, very easily. The Church of England is primarily a social organization, not a religious one.
James Hacker: Is it?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Oh yes. It’s part of the rich social fabric of this country. So bishops need to be the sorts of chaps who speak properly and know which knife and fork to use. The sort of people one can look up to.
That show is the absolute pinnacle of satire
You add 47 unnecessary letters to it.
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