last chronicle
The Daily Telegraph 15 June 2012
A man entered a police station in Lambeth,
South London earlier today, saying that
he thought he must be a missing person.
Heavily-bearded and in his mid-to-late fifties,
the man was dressed in a cloak, tattered gown
and what appeared to be a purple belt.
Police, after questioning him for some hours,
determined that he must be the former Archbishop
of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, whose
mysterious disappearance after the Lambeth
Conference of 2008, had left the Church of
England and the Anglican Communion
bemused.
Dr Williams who had been listed as
‘missing, presumed dead’ was positively
identified by dental records. Doctors told the
press that he had no recollection of his immediate past,
but finally recognized his wife and children. There was, said a senior police source, no question of a faked death for insurance
purposes – though it remained a mystery how one so eccentrically dressed could have lived unnoticed for so long.
Lambeth Palace was slow to respond to the re-emergence of the Archbishop and reluctant to say that his successor, the
Most Revd Dr John Singulane, would step down in his favour. ‘The Church of England has undergone many changes in the
last twenty-five years,’ said a spokesperson, ‘twin Archbishops of Canterbury are well within the range of possibilities.’
Interviewed later by the BBC Sunday programme the Archbishop said, ‘I suppose I must just have lost the will to live. You
feel like that after a Lambeth Conference; all the bickering, all the back-biting, all the angst. No, I don’t want to go back to
being Archbishop. There comes a time in every chap’s life when he must paddle his own canoe.’
Dr Williams is being cared for at a secret location in the Home Counties.
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16 2000 Induction of Father Andrew Burton, St Peter Bushey
Heath
The Bishop of Beverley
20 0915 St Martin, Ruislip
17 1145 Richborough Priests’ Council, Gordon Square
23 1915 Bath Abbey, ESBVM Vespers
18 1230 Guild of All Souls Council, St Katherine Cree, London
The Right Revd Martyn Jarrett
25 1900 Holy Nativity, Knowle, 50th Anniversary of Consecration
19 19.30 Parish Supper, St Peter and St Paul Dagenham
3 North Lane, Roundhay, 26 1000 Society of Liturgical Studies
20 1000 Confirmation, St Thomas Brentwood
Leeds, West Yorkshire LS8 2QJ 28 1100 Catholic Suffragans
22 1200 St Alban’s Clergy Meeting, Holy Cross Marsh Farm
0113 265 4280 - www.bishopofbeverley.co.uk 1930 Oxford Liturgists Dinner
23 1100 Holy Trinity Hawley, Southern Clergy Meeting
25 1900 50th Anniversary of Consecration, Holy Nativity Knowle
bishop-of-beverley@3-north-lane.fsnet.co.uk 29-31 Ebbsfleet Clergy Retreat, Glastonbury
26 1200 Portsmouth Forward in Faith, St Peter and St Pal Fareham
January-February 2008
03 1000 St Lawrence, Long Eaton
27 1000 Confirmation, St Peter and St Paul, Fareham
05 1200 Ordinands’ and Enquirers’ Post Christmas Gathering
28 1200 Meeting with Catholic Bishops, Gordon Square
06 1030 Holy Trinity Shaw
The Bishop of Fulham 28-29 Bishops’ Cell, St Katherine’s Stepney
07-10 House of Bishops, Hinsley Hall Leeds
31 1930 Meeting with PCC, St James Colchester
12 Licensing of Father Graham Hollowood to St Mark
The Right Revd John Broadhurst
03 1030 Parish Communion, St Peter’s Thurston
Glodwick
26 Canonbury Park South, London N1 2NF
13 1030 St John Seaham Harbour, confirmation
020 7354 2334 - bpfulham@aol.com
14 1900 Goldthorpe, Mass and Section Twelve meeting
www.bishopoffulham.co.uk Bishop David Thomas
15 Community of the Holy Cross, Rempstone January-February 2008 The Right Revd David Thomas
16 University Hospital of North Durham, visit to chaplaincy 03-08 Norway Conference, Gran Bodfair, 3 White’s Close
17 1900 St Michael Brodsworth, confirmation 13 1000 Confirmation, St Mary Ruislip
Belmont Rd, Abergavenny NP7 5HZ
20 1800 Hickleton 14 0930 London Senior Staff
01873 858780 - PAB@churchinwales.org.uk
21 1900 St Chad Toller Lane, confirmation 15 1130 Bishops Council, Bishops House
23 Holy Trinity Blackley, parish visit 19 1200 Forward in Faith Birmingham Assembly
January-February 2008
25 Interviews for Hunslet and Cross Green 20 1100 Confirmation, St Matthews Willesden
06 1000 Confirmation, Six Bells
27 0912 St Cyprian Carlton 27 1000 Confirmation, St Anselm Hatch End
13 1100 Bishop Anthony’s farewell, Eucharist, Brecon Cathedral
28 1300 Meeting of Catholic Bishops, London 28 1100 Catholic Bishops, Gordon Square
14 1930 Bishop Anthony’s farewell evening, Brecon
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03 0930 Mass, St Mary Rotherhithe
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30-31 Standing Liturgical Advisory Commission, Belmont
The Bishop of Ebbsfleet
The Right Revd Andrew Burnham
The Bishop of Richborough
Abbey
05 1900 Confirmation, St Joseph, Cwmaman
Bishop’s House, Dry Sandford,
The Right Revd Keith Newton
Abingdon, Oxford OX13 6JP
Richborough House, 6 Mellish Gdns, The Right Revd Edwin Barnes
Tel: 01865 390746 - www.ebbsfleet.org.uk
Woodford Green, Essex IG8 0BH 1 Queen Elizabeth Avenue,
bishop.andrew@ebbsfleet.org.uk
020 8505 7259 - pev@btinternet.com Lymington, Hants SO41 9HN
January-February 2008
www.richborough.org.uk
01590 610133 - BishEdwin@aol.com
06 1830 St John, Bathwick, Bath Ecumenical Epiphany Service January-February 2008
07-10 House of Bishops, Leeds 04 1100 Eastern Region Bishops’ meeting, Ely
12 Ebbsfleet Ordinands, Pusey House 05 1930 Parish Dinner, St Barnabas, Woodford Green
The Right Revd John Gaisford
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5 Trevone Close, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9EJ
1500 St Thomas, Longford, Collation Ely
01565 633531
17 1600 St Mark, Stockland Green, Birmingham Chapter meeting 07-09 House of Bishops, Leeds
January 2008
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