Sunday, April 29, 2012


LONDON: Southwark Lay Reader Sacked for upholding Traditonal Marriage

LONDON: Southwark Lay Reader Sacked for upholding Traditonal Marriage
Rev. Paul Perkin, Vicar of St. Mark's made the announcement at FCA celebration

By Julian Mann
Special to virtueonline.org
www.virtueonline.org
April 29, 2012

One of the big stories at the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans' (FCA) gathering in London last week was a local one. At an evening event celebrating orthdox Anglicanism in Westminister on Thursday, the chairman of the FCA (UK and Ireland), the Rev. Paul Perkin, announced that a volunteer lay reader in Southwark Diocese had had his permission to officiate withdrawn by an Archdeacon for defending traditional marriage.

Mr Perkin, whose church, St Mark's Battersea Rise in Southwark diocese, hosted the five-day international FCA conference, said the reader's licence had been withdrawn after the Archdeacon received complaints.

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