An outspoken former chaplain to the Queen is to convert to Catholicism on the Fourth Sunday of Advent this year.
Gavin Ashenden resigned his chaplaincy in 2017 after criticising a service at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow which included a reading from the Koran denying Christ’s divinity. He left the Church of England that same year to become a bishop in the Christian Episcopal Church, a breakaway group of traditionalist Anglicans.
Writing in a forthcoming edition of the Catholic Herald, Ashenden said the Church of England had capitulated "to the increasingly intense and non-negotiable demands of a secular culture."
