Bishop and senior clergyman join calls for Church of England to lose equalities exemptions – Christian Today April 10, 2018 by Fulcrum Paul Bayes, the bishop of Liverpool, and David Ison, the dean of St Paul's Cathedral, both called for Jeremy Pemberton, a gay priest who was blocked from being a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner, to be reinstated. Harry Farley. Christian Today 9 April 2018 FulcrumShareTweetShare