There was this story about me being in a car at London Bridge, which I can remember absolutely nothing about. Was he mugged on the way home to Tooting from a pre-Christmas party at the Irish embassy? On Tuesday, December 5, the Bishop of Southwark delivered the eulogy at Southwark Cathedral at a memorial service for the late John Young, head of the famous brewery family. ", Paul Sathaporn, a barman, added: "The car owner said to me: 'Do you believe he was a bishop?' [15][16], Butler is a regular contributor to Radio 4's Thought for the Day and has taken part in many other national and local TV and radio programmes. Your Southwark Cathedral Newsletter - 8 April 2023 - mailchi.mp/southwark/week . I came home certainly with an injury and with a loss of property.". The Lord Bishop of Southwark - Parliament he decided on legal advice that no further action should be taken. Police were informed the following day that his briefcase, spectacles, a mobile phone and papers were missing. Over time, as with all good legends, inaccuracies and other minor factual errors have found their way into subsequent publications, and certain details have been embellished to fit the narrative of this festive fable. Barbara Butler, his wife, is the executive secretary of Christians Aware, a charity that is involved in education and development. Revd Canon Anna Eltringham to be the new Bishop of Ripon The Globe Tavern, Bedale Street (Borough Market), Shipwrights Inn, Tooley Street (via Bermondsey Street). "It's very worrying, I still have amnesia." (modern). I would not say he was slurring his words but he was on his way to being very drunk. However, the only thing now served is local memory. Church rift as gay bishop declines to take up post When Mr Sumpter and friends tried to remove the Bishop from the car, he fell to the ground, bumped his head and then sat on the kerb. It was after the 'mugging' of a bishop was reported in the press that Mr Sumpter came forward with his version of events, and spent four hours with the police being interviewed and having his car dusted for fingerprints. The London Timeshttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1890372.ece A report found that the layman who filed the complaint was not deemed of sufficient rank to continue proceedings. It was subsequently suggested in the media that Butler, apparently under the influence of alcohol, had sustained the injury while being removed from a stranger's car into which he had apparently climbed. Lambeth Palace says report is "misleading", By Ruth Gledhill and Lucy Bannerman However, police have said they were treating the incident not as a mugging but as a case of missing property. Its a type of mulled punch which contains port, red wine, citrus fruits, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, mace and nutmeg. Alan Craig, leader of the Christian People's Alliance group on Newham council in east London, said: "If it's true he was drunk he ought to resign. Last month the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said that no further action would be taken against the bishop under the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003, despite a 20-page report submitted privately from Judge Bursell this year, which stated that there was enough evidence to support allegations that Dr Butler had been drunk. An ambulance was called, but the person declined medical attention and wandered off. The Church of England was accused of a whitewash after deciding not . Butler's beliefs were cited as the reason for some "valid but irregular" ordinations in his diocese. 'Drunken' Bishop of Southwark to resign next year | London Evening Andrew Nunn. So far be it for me to let the facts stand in the way of a good Southwark story, or indeed, stand in the way of a mini-industry (festive pub-crawls now take place with revellers resplendent in t-shirts emblazoned with the legend: Im the Bishop of Southwark. The Right Reverend Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark, reportedly staggered home from an embassy function and climbed into the back of a stranger's . In the light of the further evidence . His name is in the Southwark token books from 1595 to 1602, and Martin Slawter, a servant, was buried there on 4 August 1625. . One was the King's Bench, and the other the Clink, whence the expression "in the clink." Its site is today recalled by Clink Street, near Southwark Cathedral. On Crucifix Lane, on the outskirts of Bermondsey, he clambered into the back of a parked car setting off its alarm.
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