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The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England.

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

People who are comfortable with very clear boundaries and group definitions don't like the instability and ambiguity of people who say they are more advanced Christians, or they don't have to do what the bishop says.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.