Lord’s Prayer opening may be ‘problematic’, says archbishop

Archbishop of York tells General Synod that Our Father' has patriarchal connotations

The archbishop of York has suggested that opening words of the Lord's Prayer, recited by Christians all over the world for 2,000 years, may be problematic" because of their patriarchal association.

In his opening address to a meeting of the Church of England's ruling body, the General Synod, Stephen Cottrell dwelt on the words Our Father", the start of the prayer based on Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4 in the New Testament.