Emma Thompson considers the type of person the new Archbishop of Canterbury should be and argues that the Church “needs a parish-facing, pastoral Archbishop” who is willing to scale back the “bishops, bureaucracy and bluster.”
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“[The archbishops] must also follow up on their commitment to consider what I think is fundamentally wrong with the parish system: there are too many dioceses. It is impossible to justify the present 42 when, 200 years ago, in the Church’s heyday, there were 26.”
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