George Leonard Carey

Archbishop Carey

George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton (born November 13, 1935 in East End in London ) is Archbishop Emeritus of Canterbury .

Life

Carey attended Bonham Road Primary School in Dagenham and then Bifrons Secondary Modern School in Barking . When he left school at fifteen, he worked for the London Electricity Board as an office clerk before completing his National Service with the Royal Air Force at eighteen , which also took him to Iraq. At seventeen he became a Christian after attending church. During his service, he decided to pursue ordination and went to King's College London after his discharge after completing 6 O-levels and 3 A-levels at the London College of Divinity within 15 months . In 1962 he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity and was ordained a deacon and a year later a priest by the Bishop of London. Later came the degree Master of Theology (M.Th.) and the Ph.D. at what is now the London School of Theology .

Carey was a curate at St. Mary's Islington from 1962 to 1966, then worked as a lecturer at Oak Hill Theological College until 1970 and at St John's Theological College in Nottingham from 1970 to 1975 and became Vicar of St Nicholas' Church in Durham until 1982 He later wrote a book about his experience there called The Church in the Market Place.

In 1982 he became the director of Trinity College in Bristol and in 1984 also a canon at the cathedral there. After his episcopal ordination at Southwark Cathedral in 1987, he was appointed Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1988 . When Robert Runcie retired as Archbishop of Canterbury, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , assisted by her former Parliamentary Private Secretary of State Michael Alison MP, gave the Queen Carey's name for nomination. The Times religious correspondent Clifford Longley commented that "Mrs. Thatcher's known impatience with theological and moral wooliness ... will have been a factor."

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His office as Archbishop of Canterbury he took up on April 19, 1991 and held it until his retirement on October 31, 2002. The office was connected to a seat in the House of Lords . When he retired , he was promoted to Life Peer Baron Carey of Clifton , of Clifton in the City and County of Bristol, making him a member of the House of Lords for life. He took his role in the Anglican community as the leader of 70 million Anglicans around the world very seriously and traveled through various provinces. Particularly noteworthy is his self-paid trip to Rwanda in 1994 after the genocide, through which he annoyed his hosts in Sudan by a later visit, which resulted in the expulsion of the British ambassador. He hosted the 1998 Lambeth Conference to which the first female bishops were invited.

During his tenure there were some outstanding national events: for example, he attended the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales , in 1997, conducted worship services for the nation for the new millennium, quoted the Gospel of John - “the light shines in darkness and darkness did not overcome it ”- in the service of the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , presided over the honors at the funeral of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in March 2002 and preached on the Queen's Golden Jubilee in the same year 2002 on the topic “You rule with our love”.

As Archbishop of Canterbury, he campaigned for a "Decade of Evangelism". He was praised for his efficient administration. But it also triggered severe - sometimes very personal - criticism.

He is currently Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire . Carey has been married to the nurse Eileen since 1960. They have two sons, Mark (Anglican priest) and Andrew (journalist), and two daughters, Elizabeth and Rachel.

In 2002 he was awarded the Royal Victorian Chain .

Theological and social positions

George Carey's theological roots are in the evangelical section of the Church of England . He strongly supports the ordination of women , but he also has close ecumenical ties with the Roman Catholic Church since he was selected in 1976 to represent the Church of England at a meeting of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in Rome.

He is tolerant of divorce, divorced people, and remarriage of divorced people. His son is divorced and he supported the Prince of Wales' remarriage to Camilla Parker-Bowles , whose first husband is still alive. He is against homosexual relationships among members of the clergy, even though he admits having ordained two bishops who are suspected of having same-sex partners. He chaired and actively supported the Lambeth Conference in 1998, which uncompromisingly rejects all homosexual practices as "incompatible with Scripture". Carey has been criticized for his lack of neutrality on the question of attempting to save a compromise presented at the conference by a working group of bishops. He also voted against an explicit condemnation of homophobia contained in the original version of the resolution. The resolution as a whole has been described as treason by a colleague of Carey's, Richard Holloway, Bishop of Edinburgh and Primate of the Scottish Episcopal Church . Carey replied, "If this conference is known for what we have said about homosexuality, then we have failed." which continues. The resolution is at the heart of the current division within the Anglican community. Carey was also one of those who specifically opposed the Cambridge Accord , which sought at least some consensus on the issue of homosexual human rights. In an interview with Sir David Frost in 2002 he said: "I don't believe in blessing same-sex relationships because frankly I don't know what I'm blessing."

George Carey was the first former Archbishop of Canterbury to publish his memoir. The book "Know the Truth" mentions meetings with the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles and his thoughts that they will get married. In 1998 Carey publicly called for the humane treatment of General Augusto Pinochet , the former President of Chile, then incarcerated in the UK. In 2000 he criticized the declaration of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Dominus Iesus . In his eyes, the years of cooperation between their churches and the ecumenical dialogue by the Roman Catholic Church are not appreciated.

As Archbishop Carey was active in interreligious dialogue and worked on better relations with Muslims. On March 25, 2004, after his retirement, he gave a speech in which he complained about the lack of democracy and innovation in Muslim countries, a lack of critical science of the Koran and that moderate Muslims are more likely to adopt it of Islam by extremists should oppose. He also criticized the majority of Muslims who do not support extremists but also do not publicly condemn them. Some observers viewed his speech as an outright attack on Islam. Carey wrote a statement in the Times on September 10, 2008 (P 26) in which he said: "Immigration must be kept under control if we are to maintain the foundations of British society as it has been built over the generations. If immigration continues to increase with people of different religions, cultures and traditions, what will it mean to be British? " .

In February 2006, after a letter to the Times, there was even more controversy. In it he stated that the withdrawal of capital by the General Synod from companies operating in the occupied territories by Israel , supported by his successor , made him ashamed of being an Anglican.

He has supported same-sex partnerships in secular law since his retirement, but continued to oppose homosexual marriages and the blessings of homosexual partnerships in the Church.

In September 2006, he supported the Pope in the controversy over his remarks on Islam , stating that “there will be no substantial material and economic progress [in Muslim communities] until the Muslim spirit allows it, the status quo of Muslim conventions and even to change their cherished customs. ” His remarks, however, attracted much less attention and interest than those of the Pope. In November 2006 he was banned from giving the Church Mission Society lecture at Bangor Cathedral by the Dean of Bangor, who accused Carey of "becoming a factor of disagreement and disloyalty to Rowan Williams , a divisive force ."

Publications

• 1984: The Church in the Marketplace
• 1986: The Gate of Glory
• 1989: The Great God Robbery
• 1998: Canterbury Letters to the Future
• 2004: Know the Truth - Autobiography

Salutation (style)

• Mr. George Carey (1935-1962)
• The Reverend George Carey (1962-1988)
• The Right Reverend George Carey (1988-1991)
• The Most Reverend and Right Honorable George Carey (1991-2002)
• The Right Reverend and Right Honorable The Lord Carey of Clifton (2002-)

Web links

• The official site of George Carey
• George Carey - 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury ( May 11, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady (Jonathan Cape, 2003), p. 394.
2. ↑ Mr George Carey in Hansard (English)
3. ↑ Mr George Carey in Hansard (English)
4. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/2365911.stm
5. ↑ Reactions to Dominus Iesus (2000)
6. ^ Christianity and Islam: Collision or convergence? ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1138622572920&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull (link not available)
8. ↑ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article644795.ece
9. ↑ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2432840,00.html

predecessor	Office	successor
John Bickersteth	Bishop of Bath and Wells 1987–1991	Jim Thompson
Robert Runcie	Archbishop of Canterbury 1991–2002	Rowan Douglas Williams