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Walsingham takes an episcopal turn
by Pat Ashworth
 All smiles at the Anglican Youth Pilgrimage to Walsingham last week: the 850 young Anglicans had a shared serve with 500 young Roman Catholics from the Young Dawn Youth Section, the village’s biggest youth gathering so far
GRAHAM HOWARD |
| THE BISHOP of Horsham, the Rt Revd Lindsay Urwin OGS, is to be the next Priest Administrator of the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, in Norfolk. Pilgrims were to hear the news today, on the Feast of the Assumption.
Bishop Urwin, who will take up his appointment in February, became an Area Bishop at 37. He was born in Melbourne in 1956, trained at Cuddesdon, and, after being ordained priest in 1981, served his title as Curate of Walworth. He was appointed Vicar of North Dulwich in 1983, and Diocesan Missioner in Chichester in 1988. The Archbishop of Canterbury said that he was delighted with the appointment. “I send my prayers and good wishes for him in this next stage of his ministry.”The Bishop of Chichester, the Rt Revd John Hind, said that to have “such a mission-minded bishop at its helm will be a source of great confidence to many”. |
 “Mission-minded”: Bishop Lindsay Urwin, who is moving from Chichester diocese to run the Anglican Shrine in Walsingham | Bishop Urwin described the move as a “fresh challenge”. The Bishop, who remains opposed to the ordination of women, has always been an exponent of dialogue — much of it with his sister, an ordained priest. “We have had hours and hours of conversations about this,” he says. “I end up by saying what we have to do as individuals and as a Church is to learn to love with disagreement.” He succeeds Fr Philip North CMP, who is to be Team Rector in the Old St Pancras Team Ministry, London. |
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