Bishop Wallace Benn to retire at end of month

UNITED KINGDOM
Church Times

by Ed Thornton

Posted: 19 Oct 2012

THE Bishop of Lewes, the Rt Revd Wallace Benn, announced yesterday that he will retire at the end of the month. Charges against him under the Clergy Discipline Measure (CDM) remain unresolved ( News, 18 November 2011).

The interim report of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s commissaries, published last month, said that “dysfunctionality” in Chichester diocese was preventing adequate child safeguarding ( …

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