Diocese of Canterbury commissions LGBTQIA+ chaplains
[Diocese of Canterbury] The Church of England’s Diocese of Canterbury has five new chaplains for the LGBTQIA+ community after they were commissioned during a service of Evensong at Canterbury Cathedral on Feb. 5, during LGBT+ history month. The group includes two clergy and three lay people.
Dover Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin has oversight for the diocese and performed the commissioning.
Hudson-Wilson’s LGBTQIA+ advisor Mark Wilson said, “As we mark this significant moment, we celebrate the commitment to love, support and inclusion that the LGBTQIA+ chaplaincy offers. May this recommissioning remind us all to create spaces where every person is valued and welcomed for who they are.”
After the recommissioning, the bishop said, “I want to thank Mark Wilson for the courageous and loving challenge which he has given not just to those in the congregation here at the cathedral this evening, but to the church as a whole.”
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