Parish notice: journalists are getting a new rector. Welcome to the pulpit Dr Alison Joyce, who has just been appointed to take over from David Meara at St Bride’s on Fleet Street. This comes just a week after the General Synod finally approved legislation allowing women to become ordained as bishops in the Church of England.
Meara, the current rector and Archdeacon of London, bids farewell to his parish next week after 14 years of service. The Reverend Joyce, currently vicar of Edgbaston Old Church in Birmingham, told The Londoner: “It will be an amazing journey for me. St Bride’s is a unique post in many ways.” The Reverend won’t be joining the bishophood anytime soon, though. “I suspect becoming rector of St Bride’s will prove rather more interesting than becoming a bishop,” she said.
