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Yes, Padre, I agree that Canterbury must be just a tad off his rocker under the circumstances. I don't know why the Archibishop of York always looks like the cat that got the canary when you see him. He's always smiling (on the TV) as if he knows something that you and I don't. Well, maybe he does. I cast about for a simile for a while, and decided that his expression is often just like La Giaconda's.
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York has the best job in the church. He, too, like +Rowan, is an archbishop but without the projection that he ought act like some sort of Anglican pope at the summit of a pyramid of authority, which does not exist. Well might my Lord York be smiling.
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Perzackly!  Canterbury looks more like a hermit who was dressed up in the clobber and had the crozier thrust into his unready and unsuspecting hand. George Carey was perhaps more my idea of the urbane, yet pious, AB of C. Not drawing invidious comparisons here - I don't know how well Carey performed. He just "looked the part". Poor Rowan Williams always looks bewildered, although I'm sure he's not! Incidentally, you may not know it, but Penny Jamieson, the first female bishop in New Zealand (Otago) recently retired. I met her on a number of occasions, and despite my lack of immediate interest, I quite liked her. She seemed very genuine. She is much missed by the Anglican community of which my aunt is an enduring stalwart and town crier. This is the same Anglican community of which a large proportion was predicting the end of life as we know it when she was appointed, of course. One thing I do know is that she wouldn't have been sitting in the Bishop's House in Clairmont Street drinking herself nearly insensible with the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral between dinner and evensong - like one of her more notorious predecessors. 
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Jackie: Well, the dude IS named after a tree, so...Or either the Drude, one. ~~~~ F. Steve, what is the + you put before Rowan's name?
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what is the + you put before Rowan's name?
It is the tradition of several branches of the church to identify a priest by adding an equilateral upright cross after the priest's name and to identify a bishop (including archbishops) by adding a similar cross before the bishop's name. This is sometimes (humourously) voiced as "Plus Jack" or "Plus Fred." There is no authority for placing two such crosses before the name of an archbishop but one occasionally sees +Rowan's name written as ++Rowan, which is silly, but perhaps no sillier than the whole of the rest of this business.
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