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Michael Scott-Joynt
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'''Michael Charles Scott-Joynt''' (born
1943) is an English ecclesiastic and an officer of the
Order of the Garter.
He was appointed
Bishop of Winchester, one of the five senior
bishoprics in the
Church of England, in
1995. He had previously served as Bishop of
Stafford in the
Diocese of Lichfield from
1987.
He has attracted note for some of his more outspoken opinions. His
Christmas Day sermon of
2001 was titled "This Terror Is a Judgment upon Us." In it, he called the events of
September 11, 2001 attacks 11 September, "cruelly evil as they were," a judgment upon the developed nations' promotion of their own standard of living at the expense of the global poor, and condemned the
Middle East policies of the Western nations. He was also one of 52 UK bishops who signed a letter in
2003 calling for reform of
Arms industry arms export laws.
He chaired a committee in
2000, which urged a lifting of the ban on remarriage of
divorcees whose former spouse was still living. The report insisted that the
Church of England was not abandoning its position that
marriage is for life, but rather acknowledging the situation of many within society whose former marriages had long ceased to have any real existence. However, he insisted at the time that this would not open the way for
Charles, Prince of Wales to marry
Camilla Parker Bowles, since the ban on adulterers benefiting from their adultery (as, for example, by it contributing to the breakdown of their marriage) would remain. (In the event, the
Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles wedding of Prince Charles and Mrs Parker Bowles took the form of a
civil marriage which was immediately followed by a service of blessing in
St George's Chapel, Windsor.)
In 2003, he was the senior signatory to an open letter from 17 Church of England bishops opposing the nomination of
Jeffrey John, an openly
homosexual but long-term celibate priest, as Suffragan Bishop-designate of
Reading, Berkshire Reading.
Category:Church of England
