Nine men were ordained on 6 December as the first deacons and priests of the Anglican Mission in England (AMiE), the breakaway conservative evangelical movement that seeks to plant Anglican churches in England but outside the Church of England.
The nine were ordained by the Rt Revd Andy Lines at a service at a Baptist church, the East London Tabernacle.
The nine men – eight have been ordained deacon, and one as priest — are the first not to have been trained by the CofE. All work in AMiE churches. [Priest in an Anglican understanding of the term, not in the Roman Catholic sense.]
