Michael Scott-Joynt

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area bishop: 1992–1995)
Orders
Ordination1967
Consecration1987
Personal details
Born(1943-03-15)15 March 1943
Bromley, Kent
Died27 September 2014(2014-09-27) (aged 71)
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
SpouseLouise White (1965—2014, his death)
Children2 sons & 1 daughter
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge

Michael Charles Scott-Joynt (15 March 1943 – 27 September 2014) was an English bishop and a

canon residentiary at St Albans Cathedral.[2] On 10 October 2010, it was announced that Scott-Joynt intended to retire, which he did in May 2011.[3]

Education and career

Scott-Joynt was educated at

area bishop 1992–1995) before being appointed as Bishop of Winchester in 1995, retiring in 2011. He was consecrated a bishop on 22 July 1987, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Southwark Cathedral.[4]

He married Louise White in 1965 and they had two sons and one daughter. On 27 September 2014, he died at the age of 71.[5] She died in 2022.[6]

Opinions

He attracted note for some of his more outspoken opinions. His

Christmas Day sermon of 2001 was titled "This Terror Is a Judgment upon Us". In it, he called the 11 September 2001 attacks "cruelly evil as they were" a judgment upon the developed nations' promotion of their own standard of living at the expense of the global poor, and condemned the Middle East policies of the Western nations. He was also one of 52 UK bishops who signed a letter in 2003 calling for reform of arms export
laws.

He chaired a

St George's Chapel, Windsor
.

In 2003, he was (unexpectedly at the time) signatory to an open letter from 17 Church of England bishops opposing the nomination of Jeffrey John, an openly gay priest in a long-term relationship, as suffragan bishop-designate of Reading.[8] The other nine diocesan bishop signatories were: Michael Langrish (Exeter), Michael Nazir-Ali (Rochester), Peter Forster (Chester), James Jones (Liverpool), George Cassidy (Southwell & Nottingham), Graham Dow (Carlisle), John Hind (Chichester) and David James (Bradford).[9]

Scott-Joynt was one of the Church of England's most prominent supporters of traditional sexual morality, for example voting against the

civil partnership legislation in the UK threatened the uniqueness of marriage and declared he would closely question clergy in his diocese who entered a civil partnership.[10] In 2008, he said, in relation to the exclusion of Christians in same-sex relationships from positions of leadership (such as bishoprics like his own): "I see no future for the Anglican Communion as we know it, or for the Church of England as we know it, if either deserts this teaching."[11]

Styles

  • Michael Scott-Joynt Esq (1943–1967)
  • The Revd Michael Scott-Joynt (1967–1982)
  • The Revd Canon Michael Scott-Joynt (1982–1987)
  • The Rt Revd Michael Scott-Joynt (1987—2014)

References

  1. ^ "No. 51000". The London Gazette. 20 July 1987. p. 9239.
  2. ^ "No. 54166". The London Gazette. 25 September 1995. p. 12953.
  3. ^ Diocese of Winchester — Bishop Michael announces retirement in May 2011 Archived 22 July 2011 at archive.today
  4. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 1 June 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  5. ^ "The Rt Rev Michael Scott-Joynt – obituary". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Lou Scott-Joynt". Diocese of Winchester. 21 April 2022.
  7. ^ [Bishop Michael's Speeches: Marriage in Church after Divorce, General Synod, 9 July 200? — The following is the introduction to a debate on "Marriage In Church After Divorce" (GS 1449), which took place in York on 9 July]. Retrieved 2008-05-07
  8. ^ Telegraph – And suspicion begat spite, back-stabbing and schism
  9. ^ Frost's Meditations – Nazir-Ali Archived 26 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Bishop Michael's Speeches: The coming into effect of the Civil Partnerships Act 2 December 2005—A Statement by the Bishop of Winchester Archived 22 July 2011 at archive.today. Retrieved 2008-05-07
  11. ^ "BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Jersey | Island's bishop speaks of gay row". news.bbc.co.uk. 13 July 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Stafford
1987–1995 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Winchester
1995–2011 		Succeeded by
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