Updated on Thursday to add Church Times article.
Earlier updates are here and here.
The Cathedral has advertised for a new dean; applications close on 6 June 2025.
Meanwhile Gwyn Loader reports for BBC News that the Cathedral has spending suspended over debts.
The Revd Dr John Prysor-Jones and the Very Revd Professor Gordon McPhate have written to the Church Times: Bangor Cathedral inquiry needed. They are members of the College of Priests at Bangor Cathedral, where they have worshipped since retirement. There are press reports on this.
Madeleine Davies Church Times Bangor Cathedral Chapter puts freeze on new spending
This comment wrongly appeared under Church Mouse on here. My lack of IT skills are to blame, as it should have appeared here on this thead. Apologies from a bit of a Luddite. It’s pretty obvious what the Church in Wales Bench of Bishops think is action in the current crisis facing the church and emanating from Bangor. I wrote on Sunday to the Bishop of St Asaph, as senior bishop, to express my concerns and ask for action. Here below is the really rather pathetic, non-reply I received a little earlier. “In consultation with the archbishop” he writes in… Read more »
Love that it ends with the claim that “your letter is being taken seriously”. The lack of self awareness is classic CofE.
I beg to differ. The Bishop of St Asaph is not a man to use words lightly. He is also not a man to tolerate the sort of torrent of episcopal misbehaviour alleged in the Bangor case. If he says the letter is being taken seriously, I have no doubt that it is. “Seriously”, is not the same as, “publicly”. I said, in a previous thread on this subject, that the bishops of the Church in Wales have before them an unenviable task. At least two of them owe their elevation to the episcopate to the present Archbishop. Another will… Read more »
I note in the first BBC News posting ‘The cathedral acknowledged there was inadequate consultation and information regarding the expenditure on furniture and that the Dean and Chapter of Bangor Cathedral had agreed to repay the costs of the trips abroad.’ Totally inadequate! Typical response of the found out! They were quite content to have the trips funded by the cathedral so they had a free jolly and if it had never come to light then they would have said no more. But now that it is known the response is that ‘oh ok, we will give you the money… Read more »