LEADERS AND dignitaries such as Lady Hale, Baroness Scotland, Sir Olisa, and Professor Imafidon attend Westminster Abbey for the installation of Reverend Dr David Hoyle as the new Dean of the Abbey.
As BAME leaders look forward to the consecration of Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin as the first ever black female bishop at St Paul’s cathedral on Tuesday (November 19) Dr Hoyle was installed as the 39th Dean of the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster, better known as Westminster Abbey, at Evensong on Saturday (November 16).
Leaders and dignitaries from every walk of life attended the occasion, including; President of the Supreme Court Lady Brenda Hale DBE; Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland QC; Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London Sir Ken Olisa OBE; and Professor Imafidon, chair of ExcellenceinEducation.org.uk programme.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton played a key role in the formalities. The Dean of St Paul’s, Reverend Dr David Ison and Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin QHC (Chaplain to the Queen) were among the clergy present.
Dr Hoyle, formerly Dean of Bristol, now oversees the spiritual life of the Abbey and gives leadership to the Abbey community, which includes 300 staff and 500 volunteers. He succeeds Reverend Dr John Hall.
During the centuries-old ceremony, part of it in Latin, the Grant and Mandamus from Her Majesty The Queen, to whom Dean and Chapter of the Abbey are ultimately responsible, was read out and the Dean responded by swearing and affirming a number of formal oaths.
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Baroness Patricia Scotland the Commonwealth Secretariat and Lady Brenda Hale DBE; Sir Ken Olisa & Professor Chris Imafidon were among the attendees ahead of the consecration of the first bishop of African-Caribbean heritage as the new Dean of Westminster Abby.
The Anglican Church will be making a song and dance celebrating their “politically Correct” and “anti-racist” values that this political appointment generates for the Anglican Church. With this appointment the Church will be able to convince itself that it is “anti-racist; inclusive and diverse.”
However, where was the Church; Baroness Scotland and the other high profile African-heritage public figures when in 2018, Caribbean-heritage men and women of senior years were being illegally exiled from England by Her Majesty’s Home Office?
The high profile African-heritage men and women in English public life place the prestige; wealth and attention of being recognised public figures before being servants of Her Majesty’s Subjects of African-heritage. This is the prime reason why Her Majesty’s Subjects of African-heritage do not have any publicly recognise African-heritage man or woman who can advocate or speak to power about the daily skin-colour prejudice; discrimination and racism from Parliament; the political Parties and public institutions that resulted in the illegal exiling of Caribbean-heritage men and women in 2018.