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As sound pointed out on the previous post, the legal team for Martin Dudley incuded Mark Hill.
Mark Hill is Chancellor of the Diocese of Chichester, on the Legal Advisory Commission of the General Synod, on the General and the Executive Committee of the Ecclesiastical Law Society and is Chairman of the Editorial Committee and Editor [...]
In the fresh light of day, the letter from Martin Dudley to the Bishop of London reveals where the disciplinary process arrived at and what implications that has for us in our understanding of what the actual outcome of this event is.
To the right you’ll see a diagram of the disciplinary process in the Chuch [...]
Ruth Gledhill is reporting that no action is to be taken over the gay wedding at St Bartholomews earlier this month. She writes:
the Rector of St Bartholomew the Great, the Rev Martin Dudley, is to escape any form of discipline or reprimand for the Prayer Book-style ‘wedding’ service he conducted for two gay priests, the [...]
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Martin Dudley has responded to the open statement from members of his Deanery. In his reply he demonstrates that he not only misunderstands (like Giles Fraser) the Donatist heresy, but also that his argument is tantamount to willingly promoting any form of sin.
Here’s what he has to say:
The representatives of three evangelical churches in the [...]
Remember the Rev Martin Dudley and his BCP gay wedding? Now a group of clergy and layity on the Deanery Synod have issued a statement suggesting that the Rev Dudley’s actions have stretched the bounds of fellowship and mutual accountability that should exist amongst neighbouring clergy and chuches.
On 31 May 2008 at The Priory Church of St [...]
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Here’s the letter the Bishop of London sent to all London clergy, readers, church wardens and church wardens’ dachshunds today.
18th June 2008
Dear Friends,
Many of you will have seen the publicity over the weekend around the service which was held at St Bartholomew the Great on May 31st. I attach a letter I have [...]
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