page_title: Lindsay Urwin
section_title: Beliefs and opinions
hierarchical_section_title: Lindsay Urwin / Beliefs and opinions
caption_attribution_description: English: The Bishop of Horsham dedicates the new tapsel gate at St Botolph's Church, Botolphs village, accompanied by the Rector of the church (left) and his domestic chaplain (right).
context_page_description: Lindsay Goodall Urwin OGS is an Australian Anglican bishop. Urwin was the area Bishop of Horsham in the Diocese of Chichester, in southern England, from 1993 to 2009, and was also the principal organiser of the annual Caister Conference. He was the Administrator of the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham from 2009 to 2015. On 12 April 2015, his appointment was announced as Vicar of Christ Church Brunswick in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Australia. He was inducted on 15 September 2015.
context_section_description: Urwin has a particular interest in youth ministry and has encouraged people to remember Jesus as an adolescent, "breaking voice, hormones and all". He was co-presenter of the "Youthful Spirit" youth ministry presentation to the 1998 international Lambeth Conference of bishops with David Moxon.
  Urwin has argued for tolerance of conservative voices including those who oppose the ordination of women.
  Urwin was interviewed by Ali G on the 11 O'Clock Show. He later said that he realised he was being set up before the end of the interview and used it to his advantage.
caption: Urwin consecrating a new churchyard Tapsel gate in Sussex in 2004.
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