Canon Webster to become Bishop of Beverley
THE Chancellor and Acting Dean of York
Minster, Canon Glyn Webster (above, left, with
the Archbishop of York), has been appointed Suffragan Bishop of
Beverley, Provincial Episcopal Visitor for the Northern Province.
He will succeed the Rt Revd Martyn Jarrett, who is resigning on 30
September. Canon Webster, who is 61, trained at Cranmer Hall,
Durham, and has served all his ministry in the diocese of York. He
is the Prolocutor of the Lower House of the Convocation of
York.
Bishop Roger White
mourned
A RETIRED Episcopal Bishop of
Milwaukee, the Rt Revd Roger White, has died at the age of 71. Born
in Yorkshire, Bishop White was ordained in the Church of England,
and moved to the Episcopal Church in the United States in 1969. In
1989, he was among the religious leaders who escorted the exiled
Lutheran Bishop Medardo Gomez back to his home parish in El
Salvador, in the middle of its civil war.
WATCH recommends deletion of
clause
THE campaigning group WATCH has
responded to the consultation paper on legislation for women
bishops (News, 27 July) by calling for the complete
removal of clause 5(1)(c) from the draft Measure. Its submission
disagrees with the reasons given by the Archbishop of Canterbury
for the clause, and states: "Opposition to the priestly or
episcopal ministry of women is based foundationally upon theologies
of gender."