Welcome to
the web pages
of
Forward in Faith
in the
Manchester Diocese

We are members of
Forward in Faith UK
and part of
Forward in Faith
International

Our Clerical Chairman is
Father Paul Plumpton
Fr Paul Plumpton, Clerical Chairman

We are a group of parishes and individuals in the diocese of Manchester, who believe that the Church of England is one part of the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church. We support the aims of Forward in Faith in seeking a third province and we are under the Episcopal care of the Bishop of Beverley. We have been criticized as the causes of division - yet it was the Measure permitting women priests which caused division by allowing parishes to choose Resolutions A and B; and it was only this and the Act of Synod which enabled the legislation to be enacted by Parliament. And this is now under fierce attack.

The only way forward for those of our Integrity is to have a separate Province, alongside Wales, Scotland and Ireland, Canterbury and York – independent of the Church of England as such, and with its own archbishop, bishops, priests, deacons and parishes - and it must be guaranteed - copper-bottomed - before passing any Measure allowing women to be consecrated bishops this is really the only way forward.

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