St Barnabas, Old Heath, Colchester - East end
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In January it was revealed up to 300 Essex Anglicans and seven vicars could join the Ordinariate set up by Pope Benedict XVI for disaffected clergy.
Father Richard Tillbrook of St Barnabus Church in Colchester said he had thought long and hard about the offer....
"In the early stages I thought perhaps the Pope was suggesting this might be a place where Anglicans could still be Anglicans, but in communion with Rome," he said.
"But as it developed it's clear to me that it's actually becoming a Roman Catholic priest and Roman Catholic people in a separate ordinariate in this country of ours.
"That in itself didn't appeal to me, because I don't want to be out of communion with the Church of England."
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