From A Conservative Blog for Peace...Born 1933, he was a military chaplain for many years, and then Director of the Anglo-Orthodox Society, until its self-dissolution in 1994 — this society was a sort of Anglo-Catholic Orthodoxophile equivalent of Anglo-Papalists — having decided in the aftermath of the 1992 Gen. Synod vote for WO that its goal of “orthodoxizing” the Church of England (cf. Hodges’ “Anglicanism and Orthodoxy” pamphlet) was incapable of realization and that in consequence the AOS’ continued existence was pointless. He eventually entered the Anglican Catholic Church (Original Province) but, with some of its strongest Orthodoxophiles, left with those who in 1997 formed the “Holy Catholic Church – Anglican Rite” and when this body divided in 1997 into a “more Anglican” HCC-AR and a “Western Orthodox” “Holy Catholic Church — Western Rite” he was part of the latter. He served as a bishop for a time in South Africa before retiring to England.
I personally had the great privilege of meeting Bishop Wright in July 1994. May he have a sweet repose and holy progress in Paradise. Rest eternal grant unto him, O Lord.
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For those more interested in the phil-Orthodoxy of the HCC-WR, the "Tree of Life" letters found at http://www.holycatholicchurch-wr.org/ are quite excellent and illuminating.
Pardon -- the "Tree of Faith" letters.
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