Stephen Lowe (clergyman)

Stephen Lowe (clergyman)

The Rt Revd Stephen Lowe is the current suffragan Bishop of Hulme in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, Link Bishop for Namibia and Chair of the Urban Bishops Panel. Whilst retaining these roles, he has however been released from all pastoral oversight in the diocese, in order better to concentrate on his 2006 appointment as the Church of England's first Bishop for Urban Life and Faith, promoting and disseminating the conclusions of the "Faithful Cities" report. [cite news |title=The Church of England is to appoint its first Bishop for Urban Life and Faith |url=http://www.cofe.anglican.org/news/pr10006.html
date=2006-10-03 |accessdate=2008-02-09]

Bishop Lowe is noted for his comments on the hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country" in August 2004, when he called for its first verse to be removed from Church of England services, calling it "totally heretical". [cite news |title=Ban this racist hymn, says bishop
publisher=Daily Telegraph |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/12/nbish12.xml
date=2004-08-12 |accessdate=2007-08-31] He believed it placed national loyalties above religious ones and encouraged racism and an unquestioning support of governments. His words sparked a debate on the wider implications of the hymn. [cite news |author=Today programme |authorlink=Today programme |title=I Vow To Thee My Country |publisher=BBC Radio 4 |date=2004-08-13 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/arts/vow_20040813.shtml
accessdate=2007-08-31] [cite news |first=Gerry |last=Hanson |title=Patriotism and Sacrifice |date=2004-09-28 |publisher=Diocese of Oxford Reporter
url=http://www.oxford.anglican.org/page/1258
accessdate=2007-09-01] He has also defended the Church's review of its shares in Caterpillar Inc. and other companies used in the occupied territories by Israel [cite news|title=Bishop defends Church Israel move|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4729024.stm|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=2008-02-09|date=19 February 2006] , and the Church's planned sale of "Jacob And His Twelve Sons" by Francesco de Zurbarán. [cite news|title=Church to sell art treasures|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1554134.stm|date=20 September 2001|accessdate=2008-02-09|publsiher=BBC News] More recently, he has become noted as a supporter of Archbishop Rowan Williams in the media controversy over Williams' remarks on sharia law, calling the media treatment of Williams "disgraceful" and a "knee-jerk" reaction in interviews on "Newsnight" and Radio 4 on 8 February and an appearance on "Question Time" on 14 February 2008. [cite news|title=Williams 'shocked' at Sharia row |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7235550.stm |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2008-02-09 |date=2008-02-08] [cite news |title=Archbishop defends Sharia remarks |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7236174.stm |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2008-02-08|date=2008-02-09]

References

External links

* [http://www.manchester.anglican.org/who.asp?WhoCode=2 Stephen Lowe's Diocese of Manchester homepage]
* [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stephen_lowe/profile.html Profile of Stephen Lowe] on the Guardian website


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