Victoria Matthews elected bishop in New Zealand

Bishop Victoria Matthews, a Canadian bishop, commonly thought of as a moderate to conservative voice has been elected the bishop of Christ Church in New Zealand.

Stephen Bate’s report in his Guardian “People” column appears below:

“Interesting times beckon in Antipodean Anglicanism, where the former Canadian bishop Victoria Matthews – narrowly beaten to become Canada’s primate last summer – has been elected Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand, a place she has never visited. She is a theological conservative who nevertheless voted that gay partnerships do not violate core church doctrines, which should bring her into interesting relations with the arch-conservative Archbishop of Sydney across the Tasman Sea, Peter Jensen, who does not believe that women should be put in charge of anything, least of all a church. The defeated candidate for Christchurch was the combative dean of Southwark cathedral, Colin Slee, who will thus remain a thorn in the flesh of C-of-E conservatives.”

From here.

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