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Mitregate: Read the Law
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 4:42 pm
A.S. Haley writes: “If a visiting clergy does not preside at the Eucharist, but only assists, or preaches, then the position of the Legal Office of the Province of Canterbury has been that no license is required by the statute, and the Archbishop of Canterbury does not have to concern himself with the details of the ceremony, or with who wears what.”
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A.S. Haley of Anglican Curmudgeon brings it. An excerpt:
If a visiting clergy does not preside at the Eucharist, but only assists, or preaches, then the position of the Legal Office of the Province of Canterbury has been that no license is required by the statute, and the Archbishop of Canterbury does not have to concern himself with the details of the ceremony, or with who wears what. But a license to officiate under the Archbishop of Canterbury is a license to perform an ecclesiastical function at a service within the Church of England, and neither the Archbishop nor the Queen of England herself has any legal power to license a woman to preside as bishop over a Eucharist within the Church of England.
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