Your questions
It puzzles me when I read your advertisements for clerical
vacancies that there is such a diversity in the titles, such as
Rector, Vicar, Priest-in-Charge, Priest-in-Charge (Vicarage &
Half Stipend), Team Rector (Designate), Team Vicar, House for Duty,
and Associate Priest (Stipendiary). Please would someone explain
this diversity?
R. J.
Several recently appointed bishops (Hull, Stockport, Gloucester,
St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, Guildford, Bradford) are married to
other priests (and in one case to a bishop). Are there other
bishops married to priests in the College of Bishops? What
implications, if any, does this have for episcopal ministry? Do
those implications differ if the bishop is a diocesan or
suffragan?
I pray to "God, through Jesus Christ our Lord". Is Jesus God the
Proprietor's Submission Agent, the scrutineer, examiner, and censor
whose nihil obstat and imprimatur rubber-stamps
my prayer? D. H.
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