The Archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev Cherry Vann, has posted the following update on the proposals for an Interim Bishop of Bangor[1].
Interim Bishop of Bangor: Message from the Archbishop of Wales
Dear friends,
Today, we have held interviews of an Interim Bishop of Bangor. I am very grateful for all those, from the diocese and the province, who have been involved in this discernment process.
Any process of discernment has to be open to an outcome that it is not right to proceed in the way we hoped. This is what has happened on this occasion and so we will not be proceeding with the appointment of an interim bishop.
Instead, I am going to ask the Governing Body’s Standing Committee to recommence the electoral college process.
The diocese remains in my prayers.
Archbishop Cherry
[1]. On 25 November, the Governing Body of the Church in Wales agreed time-limited constitutional changes that would allow an interim Bishop to be appointed to the Diocese of Bangor.