Bishops of Hulme - Stephen Lowe, Hugh Leycester Hornby, Bishop of Hulme, Colin Stephen Lowe, Hugh Leycester Hornby, Bishop of Hulme, Colin Scott, David George Galliford, Kenneth Venner Ramsey Scott, David George Galliford, Kenneth Venner Ramsey (Paperback)

Chapters: Stephen Lowe, Hugh Leycester Hornby, Bishop of Hulme, Colin Scott, David George Galliford, Kenneth Venner Ramsey, John Charles Hill, Thomas Sherwood Jones. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Rt Revd Stephen Lowe was until his retirement in July 2009 the suffragan Bishop of Hulme in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, Link Bishop for Namibia and Chair of the Urban Bishops Panel. Whilst retaining these roles, he was released from all pastoral oversight in the diocese, in order better to concentrate on his 2006 appointment as the Church of England's first Bishop for Urban Life and Faith, promoting and disseminating the conclusions of the Faithful Cities report. Bishop Lowe is noted for his comments on the hymn I Vow to Thee, My Country in August 2004, when he called for its first verse to be removed from Church of England services, calling it "totally heretical." He believed it placed national loyalties above religious ones and encouraged racism and an unquestioning support of governments. His words sparked a debate on the wider implications of the hymn. He has also defended the Church's review of its shares in Caterpillar Inc. and other companies used in the occupied territories by Israel, and the Church's planned sale of Jacob And His Twelve Sons by Francesco de Zurbaran. More recently, he has become noted as a supporter of Archbishop Rowan Williams in the media controversy over Williams' remarks on sharia law, calling the media treatment of Williams "disgraceful" and a "knee-jerk" reaction in interviews on Newsnight and Radio 4 on and an appearance on Question Time on 14 February 2008. In June 2008 a report commissioned by Bishop Lowe, Moral, But No Compass - Church, Government And The Future of Welfare by Francis Davis and Elizaba...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1567674