Letter: Power to the parishes, and the flying bishops
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: At last, by appointing two 'flying bishops', and with the squeal of rubber on concrete, the Church of England arrives in the fourth century ('Two 'flying bishops' are named', 17 February):
Throngs of bishops hastened hither and thither . . . and while each sought to impose on the other his own interpretation of the faith, they achieved nothing but a complete breakdown of the overburdened means of transportation. (Ammianus Marcellinus: History 21, 16).
Yours faithfully,
ANDREW MOORE
Acting Chaplain
Worcester College
Oxford
17 February
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