Priest
In 2008, Slipper was ordained as a priest of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia, which is a member church of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) and considered part of the international Continuing Anglican movement. He was also the chancellor of the TAC, having succeeded Michael Atkinson, but resigned from this position in August 2012.
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Famous quotes containing the word priest:
“Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet,
And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day;
For half his flock were in their beds,
Or under green sods lay.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Because the priest must have like every dog his day
Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon,
We and our dolls being but the world were best away.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)