[Magdalen] Episcopal couple

Christopher Hart cervus51 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 04:38:29 UTC 2015


We do have at least one situation that I can think of (and there are
probably others) in which one partner of a clergy couple serves as a bishop
and the other serves as a priest under the jurisdiction of the episcopal
partner.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Roger Stokes <r.s.stokes.65 at cantab.net>
wrote:

> Listren may have noticed (at least one has, I know) that the Revd Canon
> Alison White is to be the next Bishop Suffragan of Hull.  Her husband
> (Frank) is Assistant Bishop of Newcastle.  (Newcastle Diocese does not have
> a Suffragan See so it has the one stipendiary Assistant Bishop in the
> Church of England.)  Is this the first time in the Anglican Communion that
> we will have a married couple where both are bishops?
>
> Roger
>



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