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Updated: 04/02/21, 12:10 pm
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Scottish Episcopal Church selects new bishop for Argyll and The Isles
Rev Canon Dr Keith Riglin has been elected a bishop (Scottish Episcopal Church/PA)
The Scottish Episcopal Church has selected a new bishop for the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles in an online first.
Rev Canon Dr Keith Riglin was selected by the Electoral Synod from a shortlist of three candidates.
He will succeed Rt Rev Kevin Pearson, who became Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway last year.
In a historic first online episcopal election, the Diocese of Argyll & The Isles has chosen a new Bishop, the Rev Canon Dr Keith Riglin. Canon Riglin, Vice Dean and Chaplain at King’s College London, said he is delighted, deeply touched, and humbled . https://t.co/8f9ynYJknO
By Isabella Piro
Synodality is not “a mere decision-making process”, but “a fundamental feature of the Church’s identity, says Cardinal Michael Czerny, Undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, in an article published 31 December, in “La Civiltà Cattolica”. The Cardinal writes that synodality is the way in which “the Church disposes all its members to co-responsibility, enhances their charisms and ministries, and intensifies the bonds of fraternal love”. In this sense, it finds its premises in
Lumen gentium: in this dogmatic Constitution of the Second Vatican Council, “the importance of the laity in the life of the Church is included”, since they are called to participate in its government “according to their tasks, roles and ways”. But that’s not all: while collegiality refers, specifically, “to the exercise of the ministry of the bishops”, synodality, Cardinal Czerny emphasizes, i
Reverend André Symmonds now bishop designate
Article by December 15, 2020
Scores of well-wishers in Quebec, Canada and Barbados witnessed the consecration of Reverend André Symmonds, senior pastor of Calvary Temple Community Church (CTCC), in Groves, St. Philip, to the position of bishop and conferment of the degree of Doctor of Divinity, in a virtual ceremony beamed from CTCC on Sunday, December 6, 2020.
Dr David Harewood, presiding bishop and chairman of the College of Bishops at Bethel Life International Fellowship (BLIF) in Austin, Quebec, Canada, lauded Rev. Symmonds as a loyal and exemplary church and pastoral leader who has led with distinction.
“Having been led of the Holy Spirit, we do find pastor Symmonds to be of good behaviour, an obedient servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, faithful to the sacred scriptures of truth and upon completion of training, he will be fit for acceptance into this Most Holy College of Bishops.