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Declining incomes and an ageing clergy will force churches across the Westcountry to turn to volunteer vicars, a Westcountry bishop has said.
The Right Reverend Tim Thornton, Bishop of Truro, told the Western Morning News that the double blow of a struggle to generate income, allied with the imminent retirement of 20 per cent of its paid clergy, could eventually "liberate local churches" across the West.See the full content of this document
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; Volunteer Clergy Needed, Says Bishop
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