[redhead]

"Sorry, but it is hard to take seriously the plight of a religious organization FOUNDED by a man who wanted a divorce/annulment from his wife to marry the woman he would later have executed. Not exactly a respectable religious figure."

As the titular head of the Anglican Church, can the Queen step in and tell these bishops to stay where they are? Just wondering. Obviously, her position is little more than ceremonial. I don't know what, if any, power she might have over the bishops and their desire to return to the Roman Catholic Church after six hundred years.

[redhead]

Correction: ...after 500 years or so...

[Infidel Heather]

I sometimes wonder what the Queen herself thinks of gay marriage and these other changes.

Wonder if she will at least allow Roman Catholics to be reigning monarchs now?

[Cheburashka]

As the titular head of the Anglican Church, can the Queen step in and tell these bishops to stay where they are?

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The Queen, and for that matter any government official in any state, cannot order anyone to remain a member of a religious faith that they do not wish to be part of (although some governments and/or governmental officials have arrogated themselves that right at certain times and places - see history and various countries around the world for examples). Obviously bishops who join the Catholic Church give up any offices they hold in the Anglican Church.

[Mad Dawg]

Short answer: No.

[Vanders9]

The Queen is the governor of the Church of England, not its head.
She swore an oath to “Defend the faith”, and she is a lady to whom that is important. Theoretically she could do something, but practically she probably won’t.

[ArrogantBustard]

can the Queen step in and tell these bishops to stay where they are?

Or what? Order them arrested? Tortured? Imprisoned in the Tower?

Not bloody likely ...

She might be able to excommunicate them, and act which would seem singularly pointless.