Word: archdeacon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...attracts only about 3% to regular weekly or monthly services. Empty churches, dwindling attendance: it looks like a church in serious decline. So the media interest over the early retirement of Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, 66, and the intense speculation about his successor surprised many churchmen. Says former Archdeacon of York George Austin: "I had just written an article saying there was now no interest left in the church at all. I had to change...
...says her priest name is Mother Bernadette Mary. And, she adds, her exact title is now archdeacon. "Basically, I do all the things that other priests do, allowing for the fact that I have two children," she says. "Obviously my children come first. So I do what I can. [But] I don't do marriages. The reason I don't do marriages is that people tend to want me to do them because I'm a pop star. It's the Al Green syndrome--everyone wants Al Green to marry them because he's Al Green...