Review paints unflattering picture of Lincoln diocese

by Madeleine Davies

Posted: 28 Sep 2012 @ 12:47

THE diocese of Lincoln, in which clergy feel "undervalued", and regard the diocesan office as "remote, autocratic, indecisive, and lacking in transparency", should make wholescale changes, a report published last Friday suggests. These changes should include reducing its two suffragan bishops to one.

Commissioned by the Bishop of Lincoln, the Rt Revd Christopher Lowson, after his appointment in December 2011, the report, the ...

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