RETIREMENT OF BISHOPS
bR. BARNES ALLEGES MOVE LONDON, February 27. ino e Lhurc h Assembly was considerca? a measure that would give a small litSrli of , bish °P s power to retire a colleague of whose views they h!SP?£? ve< l. Bishop of BirmingSS_!P r - E. W. Barnes) told his con“Thi 10n , in Birmingham Cathedral. Drp«ir, Col £ ld ha PPen to a man for exNtoh’ ng A hl , s belief in Jonah’s whale or Ark.” he said ahnnf Bishop said that controversy ut the measure had been “kept Power to remove a could 1 bishop from his appointment chancre n°t be obtained without a AscJLri 111 the law. but if the Church vEX sent to Parliament a measure be t£? ldate liberal bishops it would BendT Wn op l ’ “ so h is proposed to iimoc P nt rW A r i d * m <i as u r e bearing the Measure Blsh °P s (Retirement)
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25741, 1 March 1949, Page 5
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