Bishop Treweek - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 25 Oct 2015 23:20:47 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Bishop Treweek - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Female Anglican bishop dislikes ‘Rev. Mother' tag https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/10/27/female-anglican-bishop-dislikes-rev-mother-tag/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:05:06 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=78307 The first Anglican female bishop to sit in the House of Lords doesn't like being officially referred to as "right reverend mother". An initial version of Bishop Rachel Treweek's writ of summons to be read aloud to the House of Lords referred to her as "right reverend father in God". Bishop Treweek, from Gloucester, sent Read more

Female Anglican bishop dislikes ‘Rev. Mother' tag... Read more]]> The first Anglican female bishop to sit in the House of Lords doesn't like being officially referred to as "right reverend mother".

An initial version of Bishop Rachel Treweek's writ of summons to be read aloud to the House of Lords referred to her as "right reverend father in God".

Bishop Treweek, from Gloucester, sent this back and now a revised version refers to her as "bishop".

"There may be women who'd be happy with ‘right reverend mother in God', but that doesn't sit comfortably with me," she said.

"There's something about the whole connotation of ‘mother' that has a sense of dependency for me.

"It's not how I want to be looked at. I see myself as a leader, as leading from among people."

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