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Tag Archives: Bishops
Lords Spiritual
‘Six out of ten Brits think bishops should be booted out of the House of Lords after defeating plans to cap benefits at £26,000 a year.’ So declared The Sun on 25 January 2012, following the poll it commissioned from … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Politics, Survey news
Tagged Bishops, Church and State, Church of England, House of Lords, John Packer, Parliament, The Sun, Welfare Reform Bill, YouGov
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Costing the Anglican Episcopate
The office and working costs of the 113 diocesan and suffragan bishops in the Church of England amounted to almost £15,600,000 during the year ending 31 December 2010, 4% more than in 2009, according to a 24-page report released by … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations
Tagged Bishops, Church Commissioners, Church of England, costs, expenditure, finance
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More Church of England Statistics
The Church of England issued two statistics-related press releases on 28 October. The first concerned parochial finance for 2008 and licensed ministers for 2009, complementing the parochial affiliation and attendance data which were made available in February. The financial statistics … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations
Tagged Bishops, Church of England, Church Statistics, clergy, expenditure, finance, income, ministry
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Gender and the Anglican Episcopate
The Church of England has hit the media headlines again during the past week or so over its continuing internal divisions about the issues of women’s ministry and homosexual clergy. The general public’s reactions to all this have been explored … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged Bishops, Church of England, episcopate, homosexuality, Jeffrey John, women, YouGov
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Future Role of Bishops in the Church of England
The Church of England Evangelical Council, founded by John Stott in 1960 to provide a collective evangelical voice in the Church of England, has recently published a report on The Future Role of Bishops in the Church of England, which … Continue reading
Religion in Public Life – Another Poll
You can really tell that a general election is in the offing, and possibly even that Britain is emerging from recession. Certainly, there seems a greater willingness these days for lobbyists to afford the expense of testing public opinion on … Continue reading
Reform of the House of Lords – Whither the Bishops?
According to media reports, the Government is once again contemplating radical reform of the House of Lords, bringing in a fully-elected chamber. Such a move would inevitably spell the end to the presence there of the 26 Church of England … Continue reading
Posted in Religion in public debate
Tagged Bishops, Church of England, ComRes, House of Lords, Lords Spiritual
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