Vic: Prominent Anglican clergyman ordained a Catholic priest

AAP General News (Australia)
12-23-2003
Vic: Prominent Anglican clergyman ordained a Catholic priest

A prominent Anglican clergyman known for his hardline stance on gay clergy and the
ordination of women has become a Roman Catholic priest.

Ballarat's former Anglican Dean BILL EDEBOHLS, who's married with children, was ordained
in Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral last month.

The Pope allows married priests who convert to Catholicism an exemption from the vow of celibacy.

A spokesman for St Peter's Catholic Church in the Melbourne suburb of Keilor East says
Father EDEBOHLS is busy preparing for a Christmas mass there.

DAVID CHISLETT, Rector of the Anglican All Saints Church in Brisbane and a friend of
Father EDEBOHLS, has told ABC Radio some so-called Anglo-Catholics are unhappy with the
direction of the Anglican Church.

This year's appointment of an openly gay man as bishop of New Hampshire in the United
States and the 1992 move to ordain women as priests has seen divisions in the Anglican
Church.

AAP RTV rb/gfr/dl/jmt

KEYWORD: ANGLICAN (MELBOURNE)

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