ROYAL BOMBSHELL: ‘Selfish’ King Warned He Must Abdicate For Endangering Nation by Queen’s Chaplain
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Dr. Gavin Ashenden is a British Catholic layman, author, and Associate Editor of The Catholic Herald, having converted from Anglicanism in 2019. He is a former Anglican bishop and served as Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II from 2008 to 2017, resigning to freely critique modern culture and defend orthodox Christianity.
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Background: Ordained in the Church of England in 1980, Ashenden was a university chaplain and senior lecturer at the University of Sussex for 23 years, holding a doctorate on the life of Charles Williams.
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Activism: During the 1980s, he smuggled Bibles and theology books to the underground church in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, facing interrogation by the KGB.
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Current Role: He is a prominent commentator on GB News and the BBC, hosts the podcast Merely Catholic, and runs the YouTube channel Ashenden Scripted.
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Conversion: He left the Church of England in 2017 after the consecration of women bishops, briefly served as a missionary bishop for the Christian Episcopal Church, and was received into the Roman Catholic Church in December 2019.
