19/04/2021 Currently Bishop of Penrith, Bishop Emma will take up the position from 1st June 2021.
Archbishops Justin Welby and Stephen Cottrell have announced the Rt Revd Dr Emma Ineson as the new Bishop to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Currently Bishop of Penrith, Dr Ineson will take up the position from 1st June 2021.
The role reimagines and replaces the existing position of Bishop at Lambeth - the post currently held by Bishop Tim Thornton, who announced his retirement earlier this year - in order to facilitate closer working between Lambeth Palace and Bishopthorpe.
Bishop Emma will work directly for both Archbishops and closely with the whole College of Bishops. As a senior member of the Archbishops’ teams, she will play a key role in work being done on the future of the Church of England, appointments and liaising with the House of Bishops.
‘I completely disagree with and condemn this language. It is unacceptable.’ World Council of Churches
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned the “unacceptable” language that the Archbishop of Nigeria, the Most Revd Henry Ndukuba, used to describe gay people (News, 2 March).
In response to a statement on the pastoral care of gay people issued by the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) in January, Archbishop Ndukuba wrote last week: “The deadly ‘virus’ of homosexuality has infiltrated ACNA. This is likened to a Yeast that should be urgently and radically expunged and excised lest it affects the whole dough (Luke 13:20-21; Gal. 5:9).”
Bishop of Loughborough nominated for Chelmsford
Nomination brings number of BAME diocesans to one Diocese of Leicester
Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani
She succeeds the Most Revd Stephen Cottrell, who was confirmed as Archbishop of York in July after his nomination exactly a year ago (News, 10 July; 20 December 2019), and would become the C of E’s only serving BAME diocesan bishop. (The Bishop of Dover, the Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, functions in many ways as a diocesan, although she is a suffragan to the Archbishop of Canterbury.)
Dr Francis-Dehqani said this week: “It is a great privilege to be appointed as the next Bishop of Chelmsford. I know there are many challenges ahead both in the Church and wider society, not least as a result of the pandemic. However, I am hopeful about the future.”