Comments on: General Convention Press Briefing

By: kelvin

kelvin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:50:17 +0000

Bless you, Brad.

By: brad evans

brad evans — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:38:33 +0000

“Evangelical Faith, Apostolic Orders(?)-Increasingly Irrelevant Organization”

By: susan s.

susan s. — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:06:15 +0000

Thanks, again. I enjoy reading your blog.

By: kelvin

kelvin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:16:14 +0000

Calling me a dean is an understadable mistake. If hierarchy matters, I rank behind the bishop and the dean at diocesan functions. I rank behind the bishop alone at cathedral functions.

Usually I find that such hierarchical niceties have been worked out as a result of disputes of rather a long time ago.

By: susan s.

susan s. — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:47:54 +0000

Thanks… So is calling you a dean a forgivable sin? Is it a step up or down for a provost to become a dean?

By: kelvin

kelvin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:51:14 +0000

People who run cathedrals in the Scottish Episcopal Church are called Provosts, in England and in the US and in much of the rest of the Anglican world they are called Deans.

For a while, old cathedrals in England had Deans and new cathedrals had Provosts. They made them all deans a few years ago.

In Scotland we also use the word Provost for the civic leader who would be called a Mayor in a lot of other places.

Deans in Anglican Dioceses in Scotland are similar to Archdeacons in England or Canons to the Ordinary in the states.

By: susan s.

susan s. — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:34:56 +0000

What’s the difference between a Provost and a Dean? My dictionary gives the same definition of both. We ignorant Americans want to know

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:18:30 +0000

Everything I know about humility, I learned from you, Fr Madpriest.

By: MadPriest

MadPriest — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:56:39 +0000

That’s it. I’m sending in the Humility Swat Squad now.
What has happened to that shy, quiet, unassuming cathedral provost we used to know?

By: David |Dah � veed|

David |Dah � veed| — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:19:36 +0000

It is difficult, and a bit unfair, to be broadsided with a question about an article in a periodical that you have not read and perhaps did not know existed until that very moment.

Kelvin, there is a second question by another reporter about your article a few minutes later on this video.

A few interesting things about Bishop Bruno, who is the spawn of Satan in Orthodite circles. He was formerly a police officer and a Statesonian Football player. Prior to being Bishop coadjutor he was the Provost to the LA Diocese Cathedral Center (LA does not really have a cathedral) and prior to that he was rector of the oldest anglican parish in California for a number of years.

Bishop Bruno tells the story of a man in his diocese who had AIDS. He confided with the bishop that the hardest thing about having AIDS was that no one ever touched him, a very lonely existence for him. Bishop Bruno, the big ex cop & ex footballer sat in a big comfy chair and invited the man come over and sit on his lap and the bishop just hugged and held him. The man had a standing appointment to be hugged and held by the bishop until he was no longer able and eventually died.