ABofY -doing an Ambrose?

This sounds like a good thing in some ways though I also know one or two things about JG that make me wary of this possibiity. I'd like to see the CofE do something really radical on this apointment like 'doing and Ambrose' ie find someone who isn't a bishop perhaps not even a priest and appoint them -they had to ordain Ambrose through the three oders of ordination to get him installed as Bishop of Milan. And I love to see soemone in place who'd be prepared to say: "I shouldn't be paid more than the clergy I serve -cut my stipend and fee up the money for some good mission stuff"

Gladwin might just do that -he has the kind of radical mindset but then ... was he one of the 25% of Bishops who voted for so-called senior appointments' stipends to be equalised? Dunno; honest question.
Quote from article:
One senior bishop said: “He will take the archbishops’ council by the scruff of the neck and rescue Rowan (Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury) from the bureaucrats. He is by far the outstanding choice but the problem will be to persuade him to accept.”
In 1988 Gladwin warned Thatcher, then prime minister, that social harmony was threatened by “deep divisions and injustices”.

Bradford Diocesan email discussion had a couple of interesting quotes to render up too. I will name the authors becase [a] they wrote in an open forum and so this isn't private and [b] their ideas are good and worthy of being shared and credited to them.
Paul Ayers wrote:
"As Archbishop we need a person who is alive to the fact that the whole northern province is a mission field .... is open to a
radical reappraisal of the structures of the C of E which we use to follow
and spread that gospel - ... someone who will act collaboratively and
empower others to use their diverse gifts (sorry to use cliches, but they
are true!); ... We will be able to tell a lot from the ceremonies surrounding the installation of the new Archbishop: can we get away from hierarchical, imperial, monarchical rituals, which imply that this person's ministry is far more important than everyone else's and we are all depending on them to be in charge of everything?"

I quote because I agree with it. And then Gordon Dey wrote:
"The next Archbishop needs to be a person who can enable the church to recognise that C of E historic structures are not a part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ - and so enable us to dare to dispense with these old wine skins and find ones that can hold the new wine of the gospel. It's time for all forms of hierarchical/monarchical models to be eliminated, and ministry to be seen entirely in terms of function rather than status. The changer implications of all this need to be radical and substantial.
To find such a person will involve discovering someone who is already living this out in a radically different way - and who will therefore not find himself sucked into the models that are so imprisoning of the church today. It will also mean discovering someone who can communicate such priorities and challenges in a way that can energise and re-motivate Anglican Christians to initiate and demand real change in church style and structures." I've emphasised a phrase I think is really important and makes me think that doing an Ambrose should be considered. -Don't ask John Gladwin find a layperson or a parish priest and 'promete' them to service.