Comments on: Mitregate

By: Clare Lockhart

Clare Lockhart — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:35:04 +0000

According to Adrian Fortescue and O’Connell the only bishop to wear a mitre and carry a pastoral staff in the liturgy is the Ordinary of the Diocese, no matter how many other bishops are in the sanctuary.

By: gvahey

gvahey — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:23:01 +0000

In a few years’ time we will perhaps look back and see how silly the C of E is about all this. Two points worth considering are that (1) there is no such thing as a woman bishop anyway. We only have the Offices of Bishop, Priest and Deacon. The fact that a bishop happens to be a woman is neither here nor there. (2) I recall that when the C of E were against the ordination of women that they had to be warned by an MP that if they did not so ordain women, that the House of Commons would legislate it; after all the C of E is governed by the Government in England as the State Church. Even its bishops are chosen and agreed by the Prime Minister.

By: Bosco Peters

Bosco Peters — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:46:19 +0000

mitregate 3D – the movie!
Hopefully with Peter Jackson directing, and Naomi Watts as the Presiding Bishop. http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/mitregate-3d-the-movie/3500

By: Kurt Hill

Kurt Hill — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:28:33 +0000

“All this bother about a silly hat! It’s only since the 19th century that some Anglican bishops began wearing mitres.”–Rev. Ross Kennedy

Actually, Fr. Kennedy, American Anglican/Episcopal bishops have been wearing mitres since the 18th century. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Samuel Seabury wore a mitre as part of his Episcopal regalia beginning in 1785 at the first ordination of an Episcopal priest in the USA. He was the first American bishop–of any denomination–to wear one. Bishop Thomas Claggett of Maryland also wore a mitre from his consecration in 1792 to his death in 1816. In fact, the usage here is even older than that. Two non-cannonical Anglican bishops (consecrated by an English non-juror) also wore mitres (and copes) here in America in the 1720s, but were forced to stop functioning in episcopal roles by civil and church authorities.

Kurt Hill
Brooklyn, NY

By: Rosemary Hannah

Rosemary Hannah — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:42:39 +0000

I think the ABC should start getting PR advice form Tony Hayward….

By: Lapinbizarre

Lapinbizarre — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:20:36 +0000

“Oh how sweet the irony …….” Thank you for putting words to one of my first reactions to this silliness.

By: John B. Chilton

John B. Chilton — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:16:18 +0000

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By: Stewart

Stewart — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:47:03 +0000

I can not understand what is going on in the head of ++Rowan. As for asking for evidence of ordination. No doubt Colin (Dean of Southwark) and +Nick (Bp of Croydon; Senior Suffragen of Southwark) will have covered all the bases prior to ++Rowan getting involved.

To someone in the pews this just appears to be getting very silly, admirably shown pictorially by MP.

It is unlikely that ++Rowan’s actions will have pleased those he was trying to appease, and will have equally upset those at Southwark last Sunday who were expecting to see ++Katharine with all the regalia appropriate to her office.

Incidentally Kelvin, did you extend an invitation for her to preach at St Mary’s next time she is this side of the Atlantic?

By: Mitregate (2): “should I go or should I stay, now?” – Maggi Dawn

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:06:58 +0000

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By: fr dougal

fr dougal — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:31:58 +0000

The mad bit is a Canadian woman bishop mitred in Engerland years ago – Rowan’s a diddy!