The Bishop of Oxford and his three area bishops have published “Clothe Yourselves with Love,” a “joint letter to all clergy and licensed lay ministers in the diocese setting out their expectations of inclusion and respect towards LGBTI+ people.”

The letter, distributed through the weblog of the Rt. Rev. Stephen Croft, Bishop of Oxford, also expresses the commitments of area bishops Colin Fletcher (Dorchester), Andrew Proud (Reading), and Alan Wilson (Buckingham).

“We want to commend to the Diocese of Oxford the five principles recently commended to the Diocese of Lichfield by Bishop Michael Ipgrave and his colleagues,” the bishops write. “These are founded on the basic principle that all people are welcomed in God’s Church: everyone has a place at the table. Such radical Christian inclusion brings practical consequences for our local churches and for our Diocese as a whole.”

These are the five principles:

We wish both to acknowledge the great contribution that LGBTI+ Christians are making, and have made, to the Church in this diocese, and to highlight the need for mission within the LGBTI+ community more broadly