10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (524+ words) Critics have suggested that former Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is at least partly responsible for the latest schism within Anglicanism, following a breakaway move by Gafcon, the traditionalist Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. Last week Gafcon announced that it…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (492+ words) shifted their allegiance to Rome and have joined the Catholic Church. 1992 was the year that the Church of England...voted in favour of the ordination of women. The Catholic Church maintains that the priesthood is reserved...members of the Scottish…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (843+ words) Channel 4 News said his name was included in a dossier - known as The Two Cities Report - "compiled in secret" by a former head of operations in the London Diocese, and that the information in the document was a mix of…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (686+ words) Britain is preparing to announce the next Archbishop of Canterbury this Friday, and for the first time in history, the frontrunners include two women who could take on the role of spiritual leader for 85 million Anglicans worldwide. The decision will…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (788+ words) But personally, a couple of weeks on from the announcement made in the grandeur of Canterbury Cathedral, I’ve made a decision to be optimistic. Critics have pointed out that the first female archbishop will not be welcomed by those churches…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (906+ words) In 2024, the Church recorded 1.009 million regular worshippers, a rise of 0.6 per cent on the previous year and the second year in a row since the pandemic that overall figures have surpassed a million. Data from the annual Statistics for Mission…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (617+ words) She is the first ever female Archbishop of Canterbury and prior to her appointment, had been the Bishop of London since 2018. She was confirmed after a lengthy selection process led by the Crown Nominations Commission, a 20-member body that included…...

8+ mon, 1+ day ago   (949+ words) On 15 October 2025 the Church of England’s House of Bishops issued a statement explaining that at its recent meeting it had made “a series of key decisions on the future direction of the Church of England’s Living in Love and Faith…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1212+ words) The Church of England is right to look honestly at its past. Slavery was a monstrous evil. Africans were captured, sold, transported, and treated as property. Christians should neither minimise that horror nor excuse those who profited from it. But…...