Bishop of Grantham, Dr Nicholas Chamberlain, will serve as Acting Bishop in his absence
The Bishop of Lincoln, the Rt Revd Stephen Conway, addresses his diocesan synod, last September
The Bishop of Lincoln, the Rt Revd Stephen Conway, addresses his diocesan synod, last September
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has suspended the Bishop of Lincoln, the Rt Revd Stephen Conway, from ministry, while a complaint to the National Safeguarding Team is investigated, it was announced on Friday.
A statement on the diocese of Lincoln’s website said that the complaint had also been referred “to the appropriate statutory authorities”.
Bishop Conway has been Bishop of Lincoln since 2023 (News, 24 May 2023). For more than a year beforehand, he was Acting Bishop of the diocese, in addition to being Bishop of Ely.
His suspension by the Archbishop of Canterbury follows the House of Bishops’ Code of Practice. The Suffragan Bishop of Grantham, in Lincoln diocese, Dr Nicholas Chamberlain, will be performing the function of the diocesan Bishop in Bishop Conway’s absence.
The diocesan statement recognised that this would be “a deeply unsettling time” for the diocese, and referred anyone concerned to the diocesan safeguarding team, and to the agencies Safe Spaces and ThirtyOneEight, which offer support.