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CHAPTER EIGHT
“ANOTHER
CHRISTIAN REBELLION IS PUT DOWN”
Looking back at ‘Our Trout’, in Book three, there are one or two further stories that could
be of interest revolving around ‘The Lincolnshire Council of Churches’ in the Lincoln
Diocese.
As I have mentioned in previous stories, I joined this august body together with ‘The
Sponsoring Body for Ecumenical Partnership’, while living in New Bolingbroke in about
1979 at the behest of our local vicar the Revd. David Loake.
They needed a Lincolnshire representative from the Anglican Church on these two
organisations that ran in tandem and held their meetings at the same time. David as
secretary to the two bodies needed someone to help him with the meeting minutes.
The Bishops Palace at Lincoln, our meetings were always held here.
The Cathedral stands just behind.
Meetings were held in the Bishop’s Palace at Lincoln Cathedral and held every two
months if I remember correctly. Each time the chairman was The Bishop of Lincoln, or his
equivalent from the different religious denominations making up the whole body.
We had the good fortune to meet and work closely with the Roman Catholic Bishop of
