From the Daily Mail (lots of photos and a video)Habemus Cantaur, as they might say in Rome. Days after the installation of the latest Bishop of Rome, Canterbury yesterday enthroned its own new Archbishop in a service whose vaulting ceremonial accommodated bongo drums, a Punjabi melody – and suppressed giggles from the Duchess of Cornwall.
It was a quintessentially Anglican do with wedding hats, thunder rolls of organ and splodges of political correctness.
Enter processions with crucifers and taperers, lay clerks, sheriffs, the ceremonarius, a whole arsenal of canons. There were various virgers, vesturers aplenty, and a dean as damp and kindly as Sergeant Wilson from Dad’s Army.
David Cameron and (atheist) Edward Miliband sat beside one other. Speaker Bercow had brought along his pretty young trainbearer.
Cabinet minister Chris Grayling was there in his guise and garb as Lord Chancellor, looking a bit like third herald in the Christmas panto at Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre.
We also had African dancers. It was they who set off Camilla, sitting beside the Prince of Wales.
The African chaps came jiving past in the middle of the service, twirling, yoo-be-dooing, their knees bouncing as high as blokes walking on a hot beach. Yeowww, bro’, that sand is hot!
Who can blame Camilla? Her lips did a crumple, the shoulders started to shake and if she had been drinking soup she might have done the nose trick.
The 105th Archbishop, Justin Welby, wanted this to be known as his ‘inaugural service’ but enthronement was indisputably the word when he sat in the ancient cathedra Augustini – the physical, marble Chair of Augustine, which may date to the 6th century.
He looked the part in it and his clear, strong voice bespoke a man at ease with the tasks ahead.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2297267/African-dancers-bongo-drums-Punjabi-hymn--oh-modern-arrival-Britains-new-Archbishop.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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