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Primate: We can resolve gay row

BY sam mcBride
sam.mcbride@newsletter.co.uk

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HOURS after his surprise election as Church of Ireland Primate, Bishop Richard Clarke last night said that he believed the Church could solve its long-running internal row over homosexuality. In an interview with the News Letter after being unveiled as the successor to Alan Harper, the current Bishop of Meath and Kildare said that the debate was not going to be an easy solve, but that the Irish church could find a solution which may help other Anglican provinces. The widower, who lost his wife Linda three years ago, also said that when he assumes the role in December it will be lonelier without her presence. The 63-year-old, who was described by one church observer as a conservative liberal, insisted that he was not a caretaker. When asked whether he had any fear that, given the recent crisis in the Church over homosexuality, he may be the primate who presides over a split, Archbishop-elect Clarke said: I would be concerned if I believed that that is a certainty. What I would say is that I have hope that as a church we will continue a very careful process of discernment... and I would believe that there is the will within the Church of Ireland north and south to find a way through. see pages 4, 5 & 20

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