Interim director appointed for the Anglican Centre in Rome

Progressive church leader and outspoken activist appointed as interim director

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The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Governors of the Anglican Centre in Rome are very pleased to announce the appointment of The Very Rev Dr John Shepherd as the Interim Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See.

Dr Shepherd was Dean of St. George’s Cathedral, Perth, Western Australia from 1990 to 2014. During his time as Dean over $19,000,000 was raised to fund a complete restoration and development of the cathedral and Old Deanery alongside the building of the Cadogan Song School. Dr Shepherd has had a distinguished ministry in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. He was ordained at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne in 1966 having completed his BA at the University of Melbourne. He also has a Master of Sacred Music degree from Union Seminary in New York and a PhD from St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge — his doctorate focused on the changes in the doctrine of sacrifice in sacred music during the English Reformation

He has been a parish priest in Melbourne, on Long Island, in Manchester and Cambridge and he was Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford from 1980-1988. He is a regular contributor to the Expository Times and The Times, in London. He has taught music as a university lecturer and is a noted theological commentator. Dr Shepherd’s wife, Joy, was Principal of St. Hilda’s Anglican Girls’ High School in Perth from 1997-2014

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  1. Are the dates in this story correct? A man ordained in 1966 would have been born c.1940 and be nearing 80 years old. I have no objection to an 80 year old serving in this capacity, but would think it an unusual appointment.

    Also, note that the “Governors of the Anglican Centre in Rome”, a group of people most of us had never heard of until the recent appointment of a radical revisionist bishop to head it up, is suddenly very prominent. I don’t recall it even being mentioned when the former director was announced. I looked up an old story on Ntahoturi’s appointment a couple years ago, and saw no mention of “Governors”.

      • I am not that worried. What are they going to do? Have Lambeth functionaries send me strongly worded tweets? And even those would only be “strongly worded” in the Lambeth sense, not the American or Australian sense.

  2. It is long overdue for Gafcon to start establishing congregations in Europe. There are already some affiliated REC congregations there.

    Europe is desperately in need of some true Anglican witness.

    • Thank you moderators, for posting the video. It is now apparent, with this appointment and the recent one of an extreme anti-orthodox bishop as “Governor”, thatWelby is assigning to Rome his most revisionist clergy- either in an attempt to win over the Vatican to Welby’s preferred heresies, or to insult Catholics outright.

      I don’t know if you can dig up a copy, but I’ve read that at the time the former dean posted this video, Bishop (now Archbishop) Glenn Davies gave a response

      “When asked to comment by a journalist from The West Australian, Bishop Glenn Davies said the comments represented ‘an extreme form of liberal Christianity that has been endemic in the churches for the last 200 years’,”

      • The Glenn Davies v John Shepherd stoush (good Aussie word, that) was over a article in The West Australian about 4 years earlier than the video. Great response by Glenn, though.

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