THE Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) has not been able to agree on who should be the next Bishop of Carlisle, it was announced on Friday. In a statement, the Archbishop of York said that, “very sadly”, the CNC had “not been able to reach the level of consensus required to nominate a new Diocesan Bishop” for Carlisle. “Over the course of the next months,” Archbishop Cottrell continued, “the Crown Nominations Commission will need to reflect, and make a decision about which stage it wishes to recommence the discernment process. No reason has been given as to why the CNC was unable to reach consensus about whom to appoint to the see of Carlisle. The last time that a CNC failed to reach agreement was in 2015, in the diocese of Oxford (News, 22 May 2015).

Source: The Times December 16, 2023 10:37 UTC