“And if we’re going to promise to ‘Save the parish’, let’s use those
‘limiting factors’ as our banners: ‘a building and a stipend and long,
costly college-based training for every leader of the church’. !at
sounds like an ambition worth having — and a more plausible and
desirable one than 10,000 mansion churches led by the untrained
super-rich. Let us be a ‘key limiting factor’, not to the growth of the
Church of England but to the emergence of a church we do not
want and we do not need.”
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Too Many Dioceses | Letters- the Telegraph
"[The archbishops] must also follow up on their commitment to consider what I think is fundamentally wrong with the parish system: there are too many dioceses. It is impossible to justify the present 42 when, 200 years ago, in the Church’s heyday, there were 26."
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