BISHOP THREATENED
LEGAL ACTION AGAINST DR. BARNES HIGH CHURCH DISPUTE Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Monday. The controversy regarding High Church practices in some churches in the Diocese of Birmingham has reached a climax. The trustees of the parish of St. Aidan’s, including the Bishop of Truro, the Rt. Rev. Dr. W. H. Frere, tnreaten Bishop Barnes of Birmingham with a High Court action to test his right to refuse to institute an appointed vicar who refused to accept Dr. Barnes’s, conditions.
Dr. Barnes issues the correspondence to the Press, and says the issue is moral and spiritual, not legal. If the trustees succeed, any bishop henceforth will have to institute any clergyman, though the latter may intend to introduce the whole of the Roman sacramental system. It would end all hope of restoring order in the Church of England. “I will not turn the institution of the service of prayer into a mockery. No court in the realm will make me do it,” declares Dr. Barnes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 854, 24 December 1929, Page 9
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