Provincial episcopal visitor
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A provincial episcopal visitor (popularly known as a PEV or a flying bishop) in the Church of England (CofE) is a bishop assigned to minister to clergy, laity and parishes who do not in conscience accept the ministry of women priests.
The CofE ordained its first women priests in 1994. According to acts of the General Synod passed the previous year, if a parish does not in conscience accept the ministry of women priests, it can formally request that none be appointed to minister to it. Likewise, if the local bishop has participated in the ordination of women as priests, a parish can request to be under the pastoral and sacramental care of another bishop who has not participated in such ordinations. In such a case the parish still remains in the diocese of the local diocesan bishop, at whose invitation the "flying bishop" makes his visitation.
To these ends, the act empowers the Metropolitans of the CofE's two provinces to appoint "provincial episcopal visitors", suffragan bishops whose main purpose is to be available for such visits to parishes across the province.
- the Suffragan Bishop of Richborough
- the Suffragan Bishop of Ebbsfleet
- the Suffragan Bishop of Beverley
See also
External links
- [Text of the 1993 Act of Synod], from the Suffragan Bishop of Fulham's website
- [Contact details for the PEVs], from the same source
- [The See of Ebbsfleet] The web site of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet
- [The Bishop of Beverley]
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