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Thread: For the next Archbishop I choose....
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Chorister
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The real advert for the Vacancy in See of Canterbury asks for people who wish to comment, or propose candidates, to email or write their wishes to the Secretaries for Appointments. So you, even you with the spotty face and the habit of skulking in the back pew hoping for a free Fair Trade coffee at the end of the service, can plead for the candidate of your choice to be next ABC. It's true - I've seen the advert with my own eyes in the Church Times, and it's reproduced word-for-word here as well.
Which lucky candidate will you be putting forward for the role?
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Robert Armin
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I know Coventry is said to be much favoured, but I really can't see why. Of the names mentioned, the best IMNSVHO in Chartres. While I don't agree with him on every issue he seems to me to be a holy and caring man - the two top qualities I would look for in any cleric.
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Welease Woderwick
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I think they should give the job to Dawn French - The Archbishop of Dibley has a certain ring to it, don't you think?
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Mamacita
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Dang, WW beat me to it!
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Ariston
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I'm afraid that my preferred candidate, Dougal McGuire, is sadly ineligible, being semi-sorta-nominally Catholic.
When it's time for Benny to be replaced, though . . .
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Spiffy
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I think they should give the job to Dawn French - The Archbishop of Dibley has a certain ring to it, don't you think?
Oooh, can I change my vote?
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Chorister
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She can have her turn next time - they'll have allowed women bishops by then.
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Tree Bee
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I thought Rowan Atkinson already was Archbishop. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Jonathan Strange
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What about the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells?
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The Weeder
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For once, I am with the majority in a poll, or election, or anything!
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) Only on the Ship can I be in a majority.
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Chorister
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They haven't voted for Jeremy Clarkson either, which is probably just as well.
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Sir Kevin
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I did think of Rowan Atkinson: he does have the car for it - a sixteen-cylindre Rolls Royce - although he is clean-shaven! In the end, I voted for the Bishop of York, as opposed to one of my facebook friends who happens to be a bishop...
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Sir Pellinore
Quester Emeritus
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Someone who can do the job lightly and deftly without being destroyed by critics.
The Incredible Hulk? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
They haven't voted for Jeremy Clarkson either, which is probably just as well.
Oh yes I have, but I wasn't being all that serious. I have no idea what his religious opinions or beliefs are (neither is it any of my business) but I find that I agree with him on most other things ...
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Chorister
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Someone started a petition for Jeremy Clarkson to become Prime Minister. I'm not sure if he'd be satisfied with merely being Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
They haven't voted for Jeremy Clarkson either, which is probably just as well.
Oh yes I have, but I wasn't being all that serious. I have no idea what his religious opinions or beliefs are (neither is it any of my business) but I find that I agree with him on most other things ...
Jeremy Clarkson could be ideal for the job as he doesn't even agree with all of the opinions he expresses in his newspaper column (or his books or Top Gear for that matter. That would be a massive advantage over the principled worthies lining up for the job. No sleepless nights worrying about this and that, just "It's a decision, it's been made, lights out and see you in the morning".
[ 19. April 2012, 12:11: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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I did use the link in the OP to send in a serious suggestion. And it wasn't anyone on this list!
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This thread is absolutely tailor-made for Famous Last Posts.
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Bean Sidhe
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It's Rev for me. Anyone lacking his bemusement at the whole ecclesiastic caboodle must be clueless.
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rhflan
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I voted for myself...why? I'm all about going big or going home...and what's bigger than a woman ABC? A LESBIAN ABC...and that's me!
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Fidei Defensor
Shipmate
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Must be a newbie thing, I've voted for myself too. The English Reformers favoured a presbyterian ecclesiology, and were on track to achieve it until Laud found that he quite liked a spot of pompery and circumstancey and started the process of dragging the English church back to Constantinian helotry.
If you vote for me, I'll give free data projectors and a year's subscription to Sharefaith to every Anglican parish which doesn't already have them.
I've directed first preferences to the Bishop of Willesden..
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Steve H
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Rather to my surprise, I'm with the majority. Give Adam Smallbone the job! If not him, his camp rural dean, who spends his time swanning around in the back of taxis.
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Steve H
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by leo:
Pedant altert - it is the archdeacon, not the area dean.
Wodevva.
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Chorister
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The real people doing the choosing are being assembled ready to begin. I wonder how interested they will be with the results of our poll?
[ 17. May 2012, 08:39: Message edited by: Chorister ]
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Steve H
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
The real people doing the choosing are being assembled ready to begin. I wonder how interested they will be with the results of our poll?
Anyone know their email address? We could send them a link!
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Chorister
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Then everyone can blame Steve H if the voting goes all wrong.
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Steve H
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Sir Kevin
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Apparently either the new ABC has been chosen, or they are no longer interviewing candidates: Chorister's link in the OP is no longer viable.
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Chorister
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The date for submitting suggestions has passed I think, hence the removal of the 'job spec.'. Now the chosen committee get down to their work of choosing. Interestingly, the Archbishop of Wales is on the panel as well.
[ 17. May 2012, 22:17: Message edited by: Chorister ]
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Chorister
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More info here, Sir Kevin (and interested others).
May the best man (for it cannot - yet - be a woman) be chosen. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Mark Betts
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I noticed Joyce Meyer wasn't on the list ("Whadabout me, whadabout me...!")
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Vaticanchic
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And indeed, I voted for a leading candidate who will require elevation to sacred orders. Indeed further, when I mention Archbishop of Canterbury to my children, he is the man they call to mind. It's only right.
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Chorister
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bumping this up to avoid cull (until new ABC is chosen) - then it can go to hell in a handbasket for all I care....
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jacobsen
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Me. If selected they'll have to ordain and promote me to the episcopacy in one swell foop, and it just might bring down the monarchy.
Not to mention the CoE. ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Chorister
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Whoever survives the Wash House.
[ 21. September 2012, 21:47: Message edited by: Chorister ]
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Chorister
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Pick your own Archbishop with this interactive game.
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Very neat - it appears I probably want Cottrell ...
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Uncle Pete
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Interesting. Why not just trust to the Holy Spirit? Of course, the last time the Cardinals did that, they got Johannes Paulus I. He died, was killed (take your pick) within 33 days, IIRC. I wonder if he would have lasted. That would have been an interesting papacy. A different church too, at the end, I suspect.
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The Rogue
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I can't remember where I read it (some book) but it has been suggested that the people who most want a job of leadership are probably the worst people to do that job and so dragging some in kicking and screaming is probably a good sign.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
Giles Frasier.
Though I doubt he'd want it.
He'd be great, but as he's not a bishop (yet) he's not in the running.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Chorister:
Pick your own Archbishop with this interactive game.
The Guardian appears to be a fan of Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham. His experience of business, reconciliation and interfaith work count for him, but like everything else about the job they probably count against him too!
He appears to be the "other" kind of Old Etonian, so the PM and his cabal might not like him (he went to Cambridge too, tut, tut). I would expect him to be less prone to misunderstndings than ++Rowan and unlikely to worry about them either. The highest recommendation must be that the people at Durham don't want him as ABC, because they want to keep him where he is.
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L'organist
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So the ABC appointments people can't make up their minds??? Who said they weren't representative of the CofE as a whole?
Best solution? Secret ballot all people on parish electoral rolls (as at today's date) who are in church on, say, Advent Sunday. Winner of that gets the job.
![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif) Secret ballot
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