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  • The Cumbrae Revels

    Here’s some pics from last Saturday. I was on the island of Greater Cumbrae at the Cathedral of the Isles to see its two new canons installed. They are the Dean of that diocese – the Very Rev Andrew Swift and the Provost of St John’s Cathedral, Oban the Very Rev Nicola McNelly.

    Here they are:
    Canons in Millport

    This is how they process in the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles. (This tradition developed due to a history of Viking Raids, I believe)
    procession

    This is the bishop sporting a slighty twisty lappet.
    twisty lappet

    This is the light fitting that I once again failed to smuggle off the island but which I found myself coveting when I should have been praying.

    candles

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3 responses to “Our own little Anglican Communion”

  1. Seph Avatar
    Seph

    Not to mention Aotearoa/New Zealand Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

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  2. Bro David Avatar
    Bro David

    When I went to seminary in Seattle, WA, USA in the mid 1980s I took a summer term class at Vancouver School of Theology in the Diocese of New Westminster, Canada. While there I met Dean Peter’s current bishop, +Michael, who was himself dean of Christ Church Cathedral at that time. I still have his small book that he gave me, Rites For A New Age: Understanding the Book of Alternative Services. Vancouver is such a beautiful city.

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  3. Allan Ronald Avatar
    Allan Ronald

    That +Michael would be the Mike Ingham with whom I was at theological college in Edinburgh 40 years ago, then. A breath of fresh air in the place back then, if memory serves.

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