Bishop Baker appointed Bishop of Fulham
THE Bishop of Ebbsfleet, the Rt Revd
Jonathan Baker, has been appointed Bishop of Fulham, replacing John
Broadhurst, who joined the Ordinariate last year. Besides other
responsibilities in the diocese, Bishop Baker will care for the
Fulham parishes in London, Southwark, and Rochester, for which he
will take responsibility from the Bishop of Edmonton, the Rt Revd
Peter Wheatley, on Ash Wednesday, 13 February 2013.
Pensioner blogger's ASBO quashed
A PENSIONER who was banned
from contacting a Methodist minister for ten years has had his
anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) quashed by the Court of Appeal.
Christopher Perry, who lives in Wetwang, East Yorkshire, was given
the ASBO by a judge at Hull Magistrates' Court, banning him from
approaching the Revd Robert Amos (News, 27 January). Mr Perry's
blog published photos of Mr Amos, and made false accusations about
him. The Court of Appeal judge said that Mr Perry's right to
freedom of expression had not been sufficiently taken into
account.
Queen's chaplain appointed Kirk Moderator
THE Revd Lorna Hood, a Chaplain to the
Queen, was nominated on Tuesday to be the next Moderator of the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Mrs Hood, who is 59,
will assume office on 18 May 2013, the opening day of the General
Assembly.
Savile coverage brings abuse victims forward
THE diocesan safeguarding
adviser for Chichester, Colin Perkins, told Nicky Campbell's show
on BBC Radio 5 Live, on Monday, that survivors of sexual abuse by
clerics have welcomed the extensive media coverage of the Jimmy
Savile scandal. He said: "I speak to a lot of survivors of clergy
sexual abuse in this diocese, and not one of them wants this story
to go away. . . When [abuse] is talked about in the media, more
survivors come forward."
Bishop Stevens speaks out on treatment of homosexuals
THE Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd
Tim Stevens, speaking in the House of Lords on Thursday of last
week, said that disagreements about the ethics of homosexual
practice in the Anglican Communion "cannot and must not be any
basis for equivocating on the central issue of equality before the
law of all human beings, whether heterosexual or homosexual".