Gay bishop breaks the mould

arriving from Dubai.

An online news site had reported he died midair on his way to Dubai. — AFP A BRITISH bishop has become the first in the Church of England — the mother church of the worldwide Anglican faith — to announce he is homosexual, in an interview published yesterday.

Nicholas Chamberlain, the Bishop of Grantham in central England, told the Guardian he was in a long-term relationship with his male partner, after a Sunday paper reportedly said it was about to publish a story on his private life.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, leader of the world’s Anglican faith, said Chamberlain’s sexuality was “completely irrelevant”.

The Church of England dropped its opposition to gay clergymen in civil partnerships becoming bishops in 2013.

The Anglican Church of Uganda in 2014 said it may consider breaking away from its mother church in England if it put Uganda under pressure over its tough antihomosexuality law. — AFP