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My faith journey began in the Roman Catholic Church.
Throughout that time, I remained part of the Catholic Church.
- in the relaxed modern catholic tradition: love hymns and songs by Graham Kendrick, Matt Maher, Gregory
Having been a Training Incumbent for self- described liberal-catholic, middle-of-the-road, and evangelical curates, I appreciate that these are not simply “camps” or “tribes.” We are family members together in the household of God – the communion of saints in which we profess our belief, and whom I am honoured to serve.
I am aware that saying that may alarm many of those who would be with me on equal marriage but my whole point is that I judge each issue on its own merits rather than voting with my tribe and I think that that’s a good thing; and what it means to be a catholic or broad church which seeks to hold people together rather than splintering every time we disagree.
I was brought up as a Roman Catholic.
When asked to be Godparent to one of my sister's children, whose service was being held at All Saints Church, Pittville, and Anglo-Catholic Church, I attended church regularly and was confirmed.
As a priest, I now sit comfortably across church tradition; I have worshiped and ministered in a variety of churches, and I feel drawn into Christ whether it be kneeling at Benediction in Anglo Catholic worship or singing repetitive songs in Evangelical worship.
It’s interesting when I visit family in Poland, on the occasions I have worn my ‘dog collar’, Polish university students have pointed to it and have asked ‘what’s this all about?’ – after explaining, comments were made that this should happen in the Catholic Church.
Coming from a charismatic evangelical background my formation for priesthood at the College of the Resurrection was something of a steep learning curve but I found within the Anglo-Catholic tradition a language for my love of worship and a deep tradition of social action rooted in theological integrity from which I continue to draw.
I left the Church of England, and stepped down from General Synod, and was for ten years Dean of St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral Nicosia, in the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East being closely connected with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
I’m an inclusive catholic, by tradition and conviction, while believing that God calls the whole Church, across all its traditions and perspectives, to share together in God's mission of love and transformation.
I grew up in my local middle-of-the-road Anglican church where I now serve most months, but my faith was nurtured through the Roman Catholic chaplaincy at university and later kindled at a charismatic evangelical Methodist church.
Today, while I prefer more formal and sacramental worship, I treasure the friendships made through the New Wine network and would describe myself, only half- jokingly, as a committed anglo-catholic charismatic evangelical.
Raised Catholic
A catholic Anglican for whom the sacraments are central to what priesthood means, and a member of the Society of
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I lived in Scotland for 12 years and it was there that I became a liberal, Anglo-Catholic in the Scottish Episcopal Church.
I value and wish to promote further ecumenical dialogue with the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
If I am elected, it would also be helpful to have an encompassing and catholic representation of our entire diocese with the addition of a member from Istanbul.
I visit the sick, the elderly to anoint and to give them the eucharist and have participated in volunteer work with the Roman Catholic Church in Istanbul.
I have served and rejoiced in Parishes from the Anglo-Catholic to the Evangelical, and from the Central to the Charismatic (my own tradition).
I came to faith in my 20s and have been formed by Anglo-Catholic and evangelical parishes.
Through our partnership with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church we have hosted refugees for over four years.
We all come from “somewhere”- I’m an evangelical with a liturgical/cathedral background and catholic formation- but we don’t have to be in silos.
I grew up in Northern Ireland as a Presbyterian, in a family with Presbyterian, Anglican and Roman Catholic roots.
I stand in the Catholic tradition and value the power of the sacramental life to mediate God's grace and encounter the risen Christ.
I am theologically orthodox and seek to welcome all with compassion and without distinction, whilst being committed to the traditional doctrine of Christian marriage as received by the church catholic.
I am 28 and have worshipped in the Church of England all my life, first in an Anglo-Catholic parish in Rutland and, for the past fourteen years, in a charismatic evangelical church in Kettering.
I am a member of the Anglican Communion’s Old-Catholic Council and have been invited to apply for the Archbishop’s College of Evangelists.
In areas of theological controversy, I will be unashamed to bring a reformed evangelical and complementarian voice to deliberations, but always rooted in upholding our One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church against those who would divide it.
I am a traditional catholic with a strong belief in the mutual flourishing of the whole Church, strengthened by the Five Guiding Principles contained in the
I live this by my work with Micah Liverpool at St Bride's, a joint initiative with the Catholic and Anglican cathedrals to relieve Liverpool residents from social injustice and poverty.
Following this year's interfaith walk, I meet with the local Lectio community at St. Vincent's catholic church, for Friday evenings full of prayer & community.
In 2023 I completed a doctorate in theology and ministry, researching how traditionalist Anglo-Catholic priests understood mission and navigated change in the Church of England.
He is a Roman Catholic and I have learnt so much from him and the RC church (but am still happy to be Anglican!).
I was brought up in an inter-church family (my dad was a curate in Sunbury-on-Thames and my mum is a Roman Catholic), and spent my childhood in a mix of Roman Catholic, Anglo Catholic, Evangelical and more Central churches.
My faith was strengthened by the wise support and guidance of significant people in my life and has been nurtured by many traditions within the Anglican Communion, from liberal catholic through to evangelical, all of which have helped me to be the person I am now.
I have an eclectic background: I grew up in a rural Church in Wales setting, have experience of Eastern Orthodoxy, worshipped for a time in more catholic Anglican churches in Oxford, and ministered in a larger gathered-church context before coming to my present role in rural parish ministry.
On General Synod, he is a member of the Evangelical Group (EGGS), STP and Catholic Group.
I am originally from Austria and was brought up in the Catholic tradition.
Having experienced both Catholic and Evangelical traditions, I have come to appreciate certain aspects of each, while finding others more difficult to grasp.
Today I worship at St Margaret of Antioch, Princes Road, a Liberal Catholic Church Plant serving one of Liverpool’s most diverse, multi faith communities, where our conviction is simple; all are welcome always.
Acknowledging that I am human and very imperfect, I continue to strive to do all that I can do in Christ’s service. “Nadine Daniel — surely set to top the poll of most contributions this Synod.” ~ Michael Hayden from A Reformed Catholic, reporting on General Synod M y R e co rd o n G e n e ra l Sy n o d I feel called to continue to serve on General Synod, as the Church of England faces many important decisions about its future direction, and it is vital that a diversity of voices and opinions are heard.
From a Liberal-Catholic background, I have worked locally and nationally with communities across the breadth of the Church of England and beyond.
I currently worship in the catholic tradition of the Church of England, but my experience of the Church has been broader than that.
Since 1992 I have lived in Stony Stratford in Milton Keynes which happens to be an Anglo Catholic parish.
Baptised a Catholic, in a fully blessed marriage I have embraced the Church of England, which I consider to be my family.
I was brought up in the Roman Catholic Church, and the decisive turn in my journey towards Anglicanism came in 1996, when I spent three months at a mission in Venezuela.
I found that home in an Anglicanism of generous orthodoxy, where catholic and evangelical traditions enrich one another, cultural habits are not mistaken for religious identity itself, and people of different histories, cultures and languages belong equally within a communion deeper than complete agreement.
At St Matthew’s I worship within a liberal Catholic tradition.
This warm welcome and informality is balanced with our Eucharist services deeply rooted in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, and the courses we offer to study the Bible and discuss our faith.
Although I am a traditional Catholic and a trustee of Forward in Faith, I want the Church of England to remain a broad Church with high, middle and low, catholic, evangelical and liberal, all engaging in mission.
The Church is called to proclaim afresh to each generation the faith uniquely revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds.
I have been exposed to a wide variety of traditions in the Church but see myself in the Inclusive Catholic tradition today with a heart for parish ministry focused on the celebration of the sacraments, the preaching of the Gospel, and pastoral care.
My parents had Catholic roots and found faith in a Baptist church in Leeds where I was nurtured as a child.
Roman Catholic, and Orthodox
Roman Catholic and Orthodox ecclesiastical
I consider myself to be a liberal Anglo Catholic.
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I am an Anglican in love with our mission to the nation and our communities, a catholic Anglican in love with the tradition that enlivens and inspires, an inclusive Anglican who believes all are called, all are loved and all must be celebrated as God made them.
Past leadership in large evangelical, suburban catholic, small market town, and multi-parish rural contexts in this diocese, and now working closely with senior leaders and diocesan support staff.
I am committed to inclusive catholic principles and dedicated to kindness towards those with whom I disagree.
I support Together for the Church of England’s commitment to inclusion, and I believe it is essential that any question about church doctrine or discipline is underpinned by a profound listening, a passion for truth, and a shared commitment to catholic order.
charasmatic expressions, Roman Catholic, Church of Scotland, Cathedrals and high churches, meaning that I not only value but champion the breadth of worship within the church as I have encountered God in all of it and pray for its flourishing.
I love the church: the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, with its many expressions around the world.
My time at university gave me many opportunities, opportunities, particularly during my year abroad, to encounter a range of other traditions including Catholic, Baptist and ecumenical.
From 2014 – 2016, I attended St John’s in Waterloo, which is from the affirming Catholic tradition.
I have genuinely benefitted from both the Catholic and Evangelical traditions.
In all our debates, and especially on doctrine, we need honesty from all viewpoints about the intended outcomes of the proposals that are put forward, and respect for the integrity of both those who seek change and those, like me, who could not support a departure from our inherited catholic doctrine.
When I trained for ordination at Cranmer Hall, Durham, I was taken out of my Anglo-Catholic comfort zone and placed in the midst of substantive engagement with people from other traditions and approaches within the CofE.
This contextualised my understanding of my place as an Anglo-Catholic within the wider CofE whilst remaining open to challenging my own assumptions, contributing to debates with people from different theological perspectives, and always looking to what we can agree on despite our differences.
I hold the catholic and reformed view of Scripture’s teaching on marriage and believe that, properly understood, it is good news for all - including my LGBTQ+ friends.
In all this, I will endeavour to promote our faith as expressed in the catholic creeds and Anglican formularies.
Five Guiding Principles agreed in 2014, and it requires honesty and integrity in respecting the differences between different parts of the Church, not least in dialogue with our ecumenical partners such as the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
As such, I’m an ‘Oy Vey, Maria’, but baptised and confirmed in the Roman Catholic church.
However, having moved to Witney, I started worshipping at the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, an inclusive Anglican church, with a modern catholic tradition.
I have ministered for over 30 years across a huge variety of traditions within the Church of England (from Affirming Catholic and Traditional Catholic to Open Evangelical and Conservative Evangelical) in a wide range of contexts, and see good in every one of them.
I was born in Plymouth, but adopted through the Catholic Church by my Mum and Dad in Exeter.
My faith journey I was raised as a Catholic but it wasn’t for me.
I was a choirboy and server in an Anglo-Catholic church until the age of 18.
I was born in inner-city Birmingham where I was in the choir of an Anglo- Catholic Church, St Gregory the Great.
I was a boy chorister in the Anglo-Catholic parish church in Pembrokeshire where I was raised.
If elected, I will seek to serve prayerfully, thoughtfully and with integrity, always asking how General Synod can best strengthen the mission of the Church, support those serving in parish ministry and enable the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church to flourish in this generation.
In short, we need a Churchgoers’ Charter. …………………… As a Cathedral chorister in the ‘60s, mine was an anglo-catholic upbringing, imbued with the choral tradition.
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I have worshipped in urban, inner-city, suburban, city-centre and village settings, and in catholic, traditional and evangelical congregations.
I am committed to uphold this and other catholic sacramental principles.
Baptist, United Reformed, Roman Catholic and
I rejoice in our commitment to mission and service, and our rootedness as a church that is both Reformed and Catholic.
I have worked with people from all parts of the church – liberal, conservative, Anglo- Catholic or evangelical – and we serve the Body of Christ best when we listen to each other and work together for our church.
I am an Evangelical but serve in a Liberal Catholic Parish.
Though lam from a catholic background I have worked in parishes across the theological spectrum, as well as the breadth of theology required in chaplaincy work.
I believe that theological breadth is a strength of the Church of England, making it genuinely catholic and have found that theological diversity can challenge us to focus on our common mission.
I am, I am told, “a liberal Anglo-Catholic committed to honest
These days I would describe myself as mildly charismatic catholic.
Chesterton (who, of course, denominationally was a Roman Catholic) “These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” If we do worship the one true God, let’s tell people about Him.
I care deeply about the vocation of our church to be catholic, to truly be ‘of England’ as a whole.
My context I was received into the Church of England in 2018 from the Roman Catholic Church.
Although I do not find labels particularly helpful, I broadly identify as modern Catholic.
The Eucharist, the Examen and imaginative contemplation are just some of the practices that connect my Anglicanism with my Roman Catholic background.
My theology is liberal Anglo- Catholic.
My own faith journey began in a God-fearing Roman Catholic family, but moving to England was the catalyst that prompted a personal exploration of my beliefs.
My formation has enriched my understanding across both Evangelical/Charismatic and Anglo-Catholic traditions.
And we've built close ecumenical relationships across Lyon, with both the Catholic Church and the evangelical movements here.
Depth Over Dilution My own formation crossed traditions: a liturgy-valuing Presbyterian background, then a low-church Anglican parish, then placements in Anglo-Catholic parishes and
Breadth A journey from evangelical Understanding — Ministry is tough; clergy roots to a liberal catholic home wellbeing matters
I began as a lay worker in a large charismatic evangelical church, before serving as a curate in a rural context, as a school chaplain, and later as an Associate Priest in a liberal Anglo-Catholic parish.
One side of my family are Roman Catholic (on my father’s side) and the other side are Lutheran (on my mother’s side), and I was baptised in a Lutheran church; as a teenager, I was confirmed as a Roman Catholic.
However, while living in Exeter, I came into contact with the Book of Common Prayer at an Anglo-Catholic church - at which point I fell in love with the Prayer Book, leading me to further explore the Anglican tradition and realising that I had found my home within the Formularies.
The CoE and the parish belong to us all - Evangelical, Anglo-Catholic, High Church, middle-of-the-road and everything in between.
I grew up in Italy within a Roman Catholic background.
I work ecumenically with Methodist friends and our local Roman Catholic school, and supported the launch and continuing operation of our ‘Welcome Café’, now regularly welcoming 50-80 people each week in our small parish.
• I come from a liberal-catholic background with enriching experiences of the
• That there is a place at the table for all from conservative to catholic whilst also
About me I am a parish priest, solicitor, CEECA/Unite representative and former member of General Synod, standing in the liberal catholic and broad-church tradition.
I am a liberal catholic because I believe in the Eucharist and the sacraments, ordered ministry, serious theology, good liturgy and music, and the importance of our parish churches.
I am broad-church because I want catholic, evangelical, liberal, charismatic and traditional Anglicans to flourish.
As a traditional catholic in the Church of England, I have always believed in the pastoral ministry of the priest to all people, and I am concerned that in some places this traditional approach is under threat, and I support the work of the ‘Save the Parish’ project
My Christian faith was first nurtured in Cameroon by my late grandmother, whose Catholic faith and example remain an enduring influence.
Inclusive church in the liberal Anglo Catholic tradition.
• I’ve worked in all sorts of church settings over the years, including charismatic, Anglo-Catholic,
But being inclusive also means living with those with whom we disagree, and my ministry as a liberal catholic in a traditional catholic parish gives me first-hand experience of the joys and challenges of this.
My hopes for the future: These rapidly changing times call for calm reflection and a holding firm to the catholic faith (that is “according to the whole church”) that the Church of England has received.
It is my firm belief that the catholic faith handed down by the Apostles is an evangelical faith – that is, Good News, not bad news.
The parish church must be the focus of institutional support, and support for the central bodies and the diocese must be in effect our support of other parish churches, or we are not being true to the Catholic and Apostolic faith.
concerned to support the mission and ministry of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church in particular places.
IF YOU ELECT ME If You Elect Me: Standing on Ordination Vows At my ordination, I swore before God to serve His Church, preach the Word, and uphold the faith set forth in Holy Scripture and the catholic creeds.
Before ordination, I was Director of Katherine House, a prayer and spirituality centre owned by Roman Catholic Sisters and visited by a wide variety of people.
I worked for many years with the Jesuits, a Roman Catholic order, facilitating a gap year for young people who worked with various charities with marginalised people in Britain I’ve lived in the diocese since 2006.
My own spirituality does not fit neatly into any one churchmanship and has been influenced by the evangelical, charismatic and catholic traditions of our church as well as the desert fathers and mothers.
While I’m part of the Liberal Catholic tradition of the Church of England, I have a broad experience in my own faith background having grown up a Roman Catholic and rediscovering my faith in my late teens in a conservative evangelical church.
A dam in General Synod… First elected in 2015, I am a member of the Catholic Group on General Synod and served as Chairman from 2022 to 2025.
At University I became chapel secre- tary, sharing the role and praying together with a with a Catholic friend.
Raised in a faithful and loving Roman Catholic family, my faith came alive in my mid teens, and by God’s grace, continues to grow and develop.
I bring to Synod a lifetime shaped by the Catholic tradition of the Church of England; modest theological literacy; extensive knowledge of our diocese and wider church structures; commitment to the parish system; a passion for lay ministry in all its forms; considerable experience of working with people of differing views; broadly conservative views on key theological and ethical issues; and a willingness to learn from, and be challenged by, the experiences and insights of others.
Young people, particularly, are being drawn to tradition, many filling Catholic and Orthodox churches.
I previously served on General Synod for Chester (2005–2009) and Sodor and Man (2011– 2013), and currently serve as Rector of the Chester Chapter of the Society of Catholic Priests.
I am a Catholic Anglican with an evangelical heart.
Catholic, evangelical, liberal and charismatic traditions all have gifts to offer the Church.
Like many members of Synod, I am a member of a Synodical group (in my case, the Catholic Group).
I do so as vicar for eleven years of a growing town-centre church, an experienced school chaplain who longs for the church to engage ever more with young people, a priest unashamedly in the catholic tradition who is known to support fully those of other theologies, one who has much experience of supporting rural, village and smaller town ministry, an Essex boy who loves interrailing and P.G.
Why I am standing The Church of England is the only denomination I have ever belonged to, and I have been part of liberal, catholic, charismatic and evangelical expressions of it.
Member of both the Catholic and Evangelical groups in the last General Synod – a privilege and a great joy.
I’ve experienced two placements in the Anglo Catholic tradition (one alongside the Canon Precentor at Leicester Cathedral as an ordinand) and moved from a Charismatic Evangelical curacy to an incumbency of central tradition.
I love the Church of England - its parochial heart, its catholic and reformed breadth, and its calling to be present in every community.
I have worshipped at a gathered evangelical church in Surrey, Anglo-Catholic churches in London and Liverpool, college chaplaincies, and Anglican churches in Paris and Vienna, so I know the breadth of our Church pretty well.
At a time of spiritual searching, clergy need to be encouraged to maintain the integrity of the Anglican tradition which is both Catholic and Reformed.
I have worshipped in churches in a range of traditions within the Church of England and Church in Wales, from evangelical to Anglo-Catholic.
Before ordination, I completed a BA in Theology and a PGCE, spending a decade teaching Religion and Ethics in multi-faith and Roman Catholic settings.
Alison and I trained together at Cuddesdon (in an inclusive broadly central-catholic tradition of ministry) and were ordained together at Durham in 1997.
In my teens it was nurtured in the village church my extended family had worshipped in for generations, as well as in the charismatic Catholic and CofE churches and the Pentecostal church of our nearest big town where I attended school.
About me I am a Liberal Catholic with experience of Parish and Cathedral Precentor ministry, as well as University Chaplaincy.
I grew up with a Roman Catholic mother and an Anglican father, and one of my earliest faith memories was asking my father why he, as a protestant, always said he believed in ‘one holy Catholic church’.
His reply, that catholic means universal and that the Church of England is for everyone, has always been very influential in how I view the way Christianity should be lived.
I spent the next several decades in the Roman Catholic church, occasionally worshipping in other churches, and enjoying the differences of opinion that come from communication with people of other denominations.
My background is High Church and I have spent time, both on placements and otherwise, in Anglo-Catholic churches.
Before moving to England, I worshipped with our Porvoo Communion partners in the Church of Sweden (where this Diocese has an official link with the Diocese of Harndsand) and I have also, through friendships and an Ecumenical Placement while at Cranmer Hall, had significant contact with the Roman Catholic Church.
My own church background is broad: rooted in the evangelical tradition, enriched by charismatic and Celtic spirituality, and including helping to found the College of Anglican Catholic Women.
I grew up in the Roman Catholic Church, and it was there I first came to faith.
I attended a Church of England primary school and later a Roman Catholic sixth form.
Christian summer camps were a highlight of my adolescence and offered space to ask difficult questions, and Roman Catholic retreats as a young adult introduced me to the beauty of liturgy.
A traditional catholic known for working with people of other opinions.
I do so as a Traditional Catholic and a member of the Catholic Group.
Why do Catholic, liberal and traditionalist parishes so often feel overlooked?
to faith as a child in an evangelical church but have long felt at home in a liberal- catholic context.
When they discover I am the Rector's husband, they explain why they don't go to church, apologise for not going more often, or tell me they are Catholic, Orthodox, or “a different sort of Christian”.
ordination, I was an RE teacher in one of The Bible passage which has Liverpool’s Roman Catholic secondary followed me throughout my walk schools, and a youth minister, working with Jesus is Ezekiel 37 - The with young people from across the local Valley of Dry Bones, reminding estates and beyond.
In my experience, she is an exemplary parish priest with an important contribution to make to the national bodies of the Church, drawing from her ministerial experience, her work before ordination, her representative capacity as a member of the catholic community in the Church, as a woman but, most importantly, as a reflective and bold child of God.”
Mission Priest St Edmund’s Church Bearpark and Visiting Fellow in Anglicanism, St John’s College, Durham says, ‘Donna is a crucial voice for the Church of England to hear: a fine priest, rooted in the Catholic Anglican tradition and working class.
It is this passion that informs my Theology and conviction on marriage, ethics and mission which I describe as ‘Scripturally Shaped, Reformed Catholic’.
My own roots are in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England, having served in both conservative and more liberal contexts (I myself am very much in favour of women’s ministry at all levels).
When I got my first job in Hereford I stayed for two years with Roman Catholic cousins, attending M ass with them from time to time.
In 2020 in the wake of the pandemic we moved to St M ary’s M erton, a liberal catholic church witnessing to the Gospel of God’s love in Christ offered to all and committed to His kingdom.
I am also responsible for organising food bank collections, representing our church on the local ecumenical Round Table, for the World Day of Prayer, and for the group working towards the recent recognition of the Anglican and old Catholic churches in the Canton of Vaud.
My wife and son went to Catholic schools, and I have no problem with people holding to different traditions.
I trained for ordination at Westcott House and describe myself as liberal-catholic, with the Eucharist being central to my expression of theology.
I went through discernment in an evangelical parish, but after training taught at one of the leading liberal catholic theological colleges, Ripon College, Cuddesdon.
Family circumstances have taken me to Innsbruck, where there is as yet no Anglican congregation, so I am, at least for now, teaching in a Roman Catholic faculty and developing ecumenical links by worshipping regularly outside the C of E.
“The business of our lives is not to please ourselves but to please God.” (Matthew Henry) How I hope to serve the Church of England I have loved and happily served the Anglican communion all my life, fully upholding the Nicene Creed (together with other Christian denominations of the worldwide catholic body of Christ, His church).
Education; spanning Nursery School to GCSE, over 4 different schools; secular, Catholic and C of E; state and private.
From receiving Charismatic gifts while on a retreat at a Catholic Nunnery to seeing 5000 pounds turn into over 100,000 in grants for essential building repairs.
Christian traditions, from Anglo-Catholic Anglicanism
Roman Catholic in rural Northern
The inclusion of LGBTQI+ people in the CofE was the main reasons I left the Roman Catholic Church.
I married a Catholic in a Methodist church!
My faith began in the evangelical church, was enriched by catholic worship and I now serve in parishes of diverse traditions.
I am a lifelong Anglican and love the breadth of the Church of England, having worshipped in middle-of-the-road, Evangelical, and Anglo-Catholic parishes.
I grew up in Stalybridge in the Roman Catholic Church.
I was an active member of the church as a teenager and enjoyed attending Catholic Youth events.
At the age of 27 I was attending a service of Ordination into the Roman Catholic Priesthood, and I heard my call to ordination, although I did not understand it.
At this time I am standing because I love the Church, and in particular because I love the Church of England, which has nurtured my faith and given me the gift of theological education and ministerial formation, the opportunity to minister as part of the established church with its parish system, which serves every mile of this country, and whose doctrines and formularies are generous and faithful to the inheritance we have received in Christ, while remaining distinctly Reformed and Catholic.
My wife is Catholic, and we are both very active in each other’s churches.
I was brought to faith through music; the musical side of worship is very important to me, and I regularly sing in many different contexts including Catholic and Orthodox as well as Anglican.
Breadth - Rooted in both Anglo-Catholic and Evangelical traditions, with a commitment to the Church of England as a broad, generous, and beautiful church.
During my MA at Cranmer I had the opportunity to experience High Anglo-Catholic worship on placement and followed the best advice I was given on my first day at Cranmer - “Spiritually, eat what you are given”.
My Training Incumbent, Revd Canon Tony Billett, used to say that I am an evangelical in the pulpit and a catholic behind the altar.
A convert of two years, I am trying my best to navigate my life through an Anglo-Catholic expression for the Faith.
My theology is shaped by a generous Catholic spirituality, my work as a spiritual director, and my membership in the Society of the Resurrection.
Understanding our diversity: Lay + ordained ministry experience across evangelical, charismatic, choral, and Anglo-Catholic traditions, giving me a deep appreciation of the breadth of the Church of England.
My work with Church of England schools through Christianity as a Global World Faith has strengthened my passion for helping young people encounter Christianity as a living, global and culturally diverse faith. ● A Historic Faith: I believe in the historic Christian faith expressed in the catholic Creeds and affirmed in the Church of England’s historic formularies, with Christ at its centre and Scripture as its foundation.
In terms of churchmanship, I’ve grown up within the Anglo-Catholic tradition, and I continue to value its sacramental depth, its sense of beauty in worship, and its conviction that the liturgy forms the Christian life.
I feel most at ease today in that middle space; drawing on the richness of the Catholic tradition while remaining anchored in Reformed theology.
In following Jesus, I have drawn inspiration Nominated by from both the evangelical and catholic wings of the
I served my curacy in Birmingham Diocese across contrasting contexts: a Gas Street church revitalisation on an outer estate, a traditional suburban parish, a civic town-centre church and a smaller parish shaped by a more catholic spirituality.
As I grew more invested in raising the profile of youth participation and Anglo- Catholic perspectives, I joined the SGPF advisory group and then later LMAG.
I worship in a small country parish of Catholic tradition (but with a broad-church congregation).
I support the Catholic Group’s defence of the seal.
Why I’d like your vote I love the Church of England: its reformed and catholic heritage; its Scriptural, liturgical and sacramental worship; its commitment to pastor and evangelise through the parish system; and its place within the worldwide Anglican Communion.
I therefore want to ensure that the 2014 settlement remains in place, while hoping that modest changes could be made to improve the experiences of ordained women and traditionalist catholic and complementarian evangelical clergy within its provisions.
About me I am an Anglo-Catholic parish priest and the Eucharist is at the heart of my ministry.
Working together across traditions My ministry has taken me through rural and urban parishes, schools, church planting networks, Catholic societies and national church structures.
A Church that Sustains Parish and Innovation: My own spirituality has been shaped by charismatic evangelical and liberal catholic traditions, as well as experience of other denominations.
The Church of England contains a wide breadth of Christian traditions, including evangelical, Anglo-Catholic, broad church and charismatic expressions, alongside many parishes combining elements of several traditions.
I describe myself as a prayer book evangelical – rooted in the evangelical convictions and faith encapsulated in our Anglican formularies, and recognising my Anglo- Catholic roots.
I have served on three very different PCCs: St Mary Abbots (large catholic), leading to
In terms of churchmanship, I tend rather more to a moderately catholic viewpoint than to an evangelical one, butl can happily worshipin churches of eitherconviction.
Things new and old: I am a fairly traditional soul, usually described as a Prayer-Book Catholic, with all that goes with that in terms of sacrament, order and the sacredness of the gift of human life. |am also passionate that a parish church should be a place with a great warmth of welcome to all who choose to come and be part of her life.
All sorts and conditions: I delight in the fact that the Church of England is both catholic and reformed.
Alongside the Church of England Evangelical Council, “I affirm the faith uniquely revealed in the holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds, of which the Thirty- Nine Articles of Religion are a general exposition.” I welcome generous and respectful dialogue where differences remain, while believing that our decisions should ultimately be rooted in the faith we share, even when that faith challenges the assumptions of the age.
Alongside the Society of Catholic Priests, I believe that the Catholic tradition remains a rich gift to the Church of England.
I came to faith in an evangelical charismatic tradition, now draw on a more contemplative Ignatian spirituality, and minister comfortably within a modern catholic context.
Brighton & Hove City Council lead for Anti-Racist Education delivering resources and training to school staff including the local C of E and Catholic schools.
I grew up with the experience of evangelical, Anglo-Catholic and broad Anglican communities and I find something to love in each of them.
I grew up in a suburban parish with a broadly Anglo-Catholic liturgy and an evangelical youth group.
Both in academia and in the church, I have worked with Christians from many different traditions, including those from Methodist, Baptist, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran churches.
I love the breadth and ongoing inclusion of the Church of England and pray that it can become more so, and in so doing rediscovered its unique identity and integrity as part of God’s One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Having seen at first hand the opportunities such funding can create, I believe national funding should be accessible to the whole Church, not least those rooted in the Catholic Tradition.
and the catholic voice needs to be heard in its defence and in explaining why and how it remains integral to the Church’s ministry.
I’m a lifelong Anglican with a personal faith journey that encompasses a range of traditions including attending a church in the catholic tradition as a child, a large evangelical church in Hull, and nine different churches in Worcestershire and Dudley.
My parents were of broadly evangelical stock, and my exploration of the faith they nurtured in me has led me to spend time in evangelical churches, in charismatic churches and to have found a home in more recent years in the liberal catholic tradition.
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I love the diversity of the Church of England and for seven years supported (as priest-in- charge) one of the most anglo-catholic parishes in the diocese (St Clement’s, Cambridge) as, under God, it rebuilt its vision, transformed its buildings and drew in a new generation of worshippers.
I am not quite ‘black-shirt’ enough for Catholic groups and I found the Evangelical Group’s line on sexuality too hostile; the Open Synod group runs great quizzes but doesn’t do much else.
The Church of England is a Church which is part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and lives in the communities and chaplaincies it serves, yet able to speak with a voice that reaches far beyond its walls.
Living and ministering across national and cultural boundaries has taught me to see both the particularity of local communities and the wider Catholic vocation of the Church.
INCLUSION WITH A MODERN CATHOLIC VISION
I believe we can hold together a strong commitment to equality with a serious commitment to the Catholic and Apostolic nature of the Church.
We are part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, and our relationships with other churches are part of our witness.
I have worked closely with free churches as well as the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches.
The experience of church life in my own parish (central / liberal catholic tradition), at university (evangelical) and while in America (Anglo-Catholic) has given me a deep appreciation of the great richness which comes from the diversity encompassed within the Church of England and the Anglican Communion.
2.Generosity I am a traditional Catholic serving a Society parish, and am fully committed to the doctrine of marriage as we have received it.
I am confident articulating a catholic vision for the church because I believe the church’s historic teaching, found in scripture and tradition, is good news for everyone.
I spent my early years in a simple Anglo-Catholic church where I grew to love the richness and the beauty of a liturgical tradition, alongside the reverence of Communion.
I shared religious life for several years with a Roman Catholic community living a contemplative life in the heart of everyday life and work.
I joined the choir of an Anglo- Catholic church and loved singing at Eucharist.
My earliest church experience was Anglo-Catholic; my faith grew in evangelical churches; and while living in Ankara I worshipped at the small Anglican church serving the British Embassy community.
My husband was raised Catholic, and enjoying this breadth of tradition together is important to us as we raise our family.
• We are an incredibly diverse diocese theologically, including evangelical, catholic, central,
I was raised Anglo Catholic, was co- president of Leeds University CU in 1997 and have been part of Anglican and Baptist churches over the years.
Now I have settled in the liberal catholic tradition.
My life as a Christian and my work as a theologian has been shaped and enriched by working with lay and ordained members of other Christian denominations, most importantly the Methodist Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
The Church of England and the wider Anglican tradition is unique in its identity as both catholic and reformed and as such makes an important contribution to the global church but is also enriched by working together and standing in solidarity with Christians around the world, including members of the persecuted church and Christians in Palestine and the wider Middle East.
I long for a church that is excited about God and ready to explore in all aspects of its life what it means to be the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.
• I have been, and continue to be, formed by the Catholic tradition within the Church of England,
On the weekend of my ordination 14 years ago, I remember being stood in front of some very important ecclesiastical and legal people in Church House and hearing the preface to the Declaration of Assent being read out aloud, that The Church of England “professes the faith uniquely revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds, which faith the Church is called upon to proclaim afresh in each generation.” Hear, hear is what I say to that!
I am rooted in the Catholic tradition as lived out in the Church of England.
My own journey to faith has taken me through several traditions, from a Catholic upbringing, through evangelical and Pentecostal worship as a teenager, to pastoral leadership in another denomination, before God called me into the Church of England, a home I found because it holds this breadth together in one body.
More recently, I have come to value the Anglo-Catholic tradition.
I’ve been involved in churches all my life, and have encountered Christ at work in contexts as diverse as the Roman Catholic parish where I was raised, through non-denominational charismatic gatherings, to the quiet rhythms of a college chapel.
The Church is properly ‘catholic’ in the sense of ‘universal’, always expanding to bring the Kingdom near.
Living and working alongside traditionalist Catholic colleagues during training and in curacy has taught me that we are better when we work together across difference, committed to learning from one another.
My faith was then nurtured in Anglo-Catholic churches and chaplaincies.
While I value greatly the life which independent churches have brought to Christ's body in the UK, I believe that, for all of its faults, the Church of England has been a bedrock of faith in the UK for centuries - while also inheriting much of its spirituality from its more Catholic predecessors.
is largely based within the catholic constituency, I have a deep love for the Church of England as a whole.
Although a lifelong Anglican, I have had the privilege of studying at a Roman Catholic sixth form college, working in two Ecumenical charities, leading the Northwest Christian Fellowship at Barnardo’s and working for Methodist Homes.
I have worshipped in churches ranging from the Catholic tradition of Anglicanism through to Evangelical congregations; these different styles have given me new and deeper insights, broadening my understanding of scripture.
brought up as an Anglo-Catholic
Having ministered across catholic, charismatic, and evangelical contexts, I know the value of our different traditions and the broad middle of the Church.
As someone shaped by the liberal catholic tradition, I am committed to a Church rooted in worship, generous in theology, and courageous in its public witness.
If elected to General Synod I would give hope to give voice to the distinct experience, interests and intrigues of parish ministry from the liberal catholic tradition.
There is no doubt to my mind that the true church at its best is holy, catholic and apostolic.
As someone who came to the catholic Anglican way in my twenties and yet was raised in an open evangelical setting I have a deep affection with the Church of England understood at its most broadest.
My commitment is rooted in a Catholic understanding of the cure of souls and eighteen years' ministry in an area of significant deprivation.
As to other "headline "matters, I am in favour of ecumenism (our church is one of a small handful of mediaeval churches with formal sharing agreements in place with the local Roman Catholic congregation).
I have experience of the wider Anglican Communion from my time as a teenager living in Kenya as a missionary family with MAF, and I have represented Anglicanism at a Roman Catholic seminary as an ordinand on an ecumenical placement.
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Deeply Passionate about working ecumenically, as an Anglican and Roman Catholic with many demonisations.
At twenty-five, I became a Roman Catholic driven by the spiritual and sacramental side of the Roman Cathcolic Church.
I am a lifelong Christian with a gentle and reverential faith, worshipping at St Stephen on the Cliffs, North Shore Blackpool, a church in the Anglo-Catholic tradition.
I am standing as a potential representative of Catholic Anglicans in the diocese, bringing experience in parish, deanery, school and lay ministry contexts.
I feel fortunate to belong to a church that combines the reverence of traditional Catholic liturgy with the breadth of the Church of England, and I believe it is vital to maintain and emphasise the Catholic heritage, liturgy and sacraments within Anglican life.
If elected, I would seek to represent the whole Catholic Anglican community faithfully, including views I may not personally hold in full.
I am a good listener, I reflect prayerfully, and I would seek to represent the traditional Catholic Anglican community honestly and fruitfully.