Ingham files complaint against retired Harvey; bishop won't seek permission to visit.New Westminster New Westminster, city (1991 pop. 43,585), SW British Columbia, Canada, on the Fraser River, part of metropolitan Vancouver. Founded in 1859 as Queensborough, it was the capital of British Columbia until Victoria was made capital after the union of British Columbia bishop Michael Ingham
The Right Reverend Michael Ingham (born 1949 in Yorkshire) is a bishop and theologian. has asked the primate primate, member of the mammalian order Primates, which includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians, or lower primates. The group can be traced to the late Cretaceous period, where members were forest dwellers. and the archbishop of the ecclesiastical (church) province of British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography and the Yukon to address an issue involving a visit by retired Bishop Don Harvey to Hope, B.C. last July. "An advertisement in a local newspaper invited people to attend a meeting sponsored by the 'Anglican Church of the Resurrection' in Hope, B.C. on July 23, to meet (Bishop) Harvey," said diocesan spokesperson Neale Adams. "We have no such parish, but in the ad it claimed to be an 'Anglican church,' a member of the 'Anglican Network in Canada' and a 'member of the world wide Anglican Communion Anglican Communion, the body of churches in all parts of the world that are in communion with the Church of England (see England, Church of). The communion is composed of regional churches, provinces, and separate dioceses bound together by mutual loyalty as .'" Mr. Adams said that Bishop Harvey had not asked Bishop Ingham "for permission to do any of this." (Bishops traditionally extend the courtesy of notifying the diocesan bishop A bishop in charge of a diocese. These are to be distinguished from suffragan bishops, assistant bishops, coadjutor bishops, Auxiliary Bishops, or metropolitans or primates. when visiting outside their diocese.) Several New Westminster parishes walked out of a 2002 diocesan synod In the Anglican Communion, the model of government is the 'Bishop in Synod', meaning that a diocese is governed by a bishop acting with the advice and consent of representatives of the clergy and laity of the diocese. that voted in favour of same-sex blessings; the parishes do not consider Bishop Ingham their bishop. Mr. Adams denied reports circulated online by Essentials, a group of Anglicans opposed to same-sex blessings, that Bishop Ingham was "bringing action" against Bishop Harvey. He said that "if anyone will take appropriate action" against Bishop Harvey, it would be the primate, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison Andrew Sandford Hutchison L.Th., D.D, D.C.L. (h.c.) (born in Toronto in 1938), is a retired Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Prior to his election at the General Synod of 2004, he was the bishop of Montreal and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Canada (which, and Archbishop Terrence Buckle, metropolitan, or senior bishop, of B.C. and the Yukon. In a written statement, Archbishop Buckle said he had learned about Bishop Harvey's visit to Hope, B.C., "a few days before it was scheduled to happen" and that he had "immediately contacted Bishop Harvey by telephone" and advised him to talk to Bishop Ingham. "I have received no communication about Bishop Harvey's visit to Hope in the five weeks since it happened," said Archbishop Buckle. "If any communications are received, they will of course be seriously and prayerfully considered by the primate and by myself." Bishop Harvey, meanwhile, said in an interview that he would continue to visit parishes in New Westminster and that he would inform but not seek the permission of Bishop Ingham about his plans. "I have not yet, and I stress the word yet, I have not yet done anything in Bishop Ingham's diocese that any priest wouldn't do during a visit ... I've never ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. , I've never confirmed or anything like that. I've visited people, parishes and encouraged them and prayed with them and so on," said Bishop Harvey. "It's still my intention to this day to notify Bishop Ingham when I'm going there, but I will not ask his permission." Bishop Harvey, who retired in November 2004, said he had received two letters from Bishop Ingham that pointed out that the church's constitution states that no bishop, priest or deacon deacon: see orders, holy. DEACON - Direct English Access and CONtrol. English-like query system. Sammet 1969, p.668. shall function in parishes of another bishop without the approval and permission of that bishop. "He's quite right. The constitution says that you must have the permission of that bishop," said Bishop Harvey. "I would suggest to you that the constitution also assumes that the bishop who is complaining is obeying the constitution too." He said that Bishop Ingham had violated "the spirit" of the constitution that states that "we don't go off and do things on our own." He said that Bishop Ingham's support of the diocesan council resolution approving same-sex blessings also "defied the stand of the house of bishops." MARITES N. SISON STAFF WRITER |
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