Peter Edge Law & Religion UK Tynwald and the Bishop of Sodor & Man
David Pocklington Law & Religion UK “Misconduct in Public Office” revisited
The texts of two talks given at the recent Ken Leech conference in Liverpool are now available for download here.
Alison Milbank Subversive Orthodoxy
George Guiver CR True Prayer and the 21st-century Church
I am intrigued by Peter Edge’s article, and find myself educated about a subject where my ignorance is pretty comprehensive. I am left with a question, and wonder if someone with a better knowledge of Manx affairs and attitudes than mine (i.e. almost anybody) can help. Does the average Manx punter care less whether there is a Bishop of Sodor and Mann? Is it important to their sense of patriotism re Manx identity that there is someone of that title, or would they carry on just as happily with Anglican affairs on the island being run from some appropriate English… Read more »
@Edward Prebble: Further to your query, the best and most comprehensive survey is by Peter Edge himself, in partnership with Augur Pearce: ‘The Development of the Lord Bishop’s Role in the Manx Tynwald’, in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, v. 57, no. 3, July 2006 at 494-514; an excellent survey. The status of the bishop has been controversial in an island with a significant dissenting community, and other ecclesiastical office holders (such as the archdeacon of Man) were removed from Tynwald in 1919. The status of the bishop in Legco has been raised recurrently, most recently in 1983 and 2000… Read more »
Surely the argument from antiquity is that Man should be returned to its historic attachment to the Diocese of the Isles (Sodor as the title has it) and fall under the jurisdiction of Bishop Kevin. He’s already got two Cathedrals so why not three?