Archbishop: I was raised in a Christian family in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, and I came to a personal belief in Christ through the witness of evangelical laypeople in 1965. Soon after this, I trained for the priesthood and my first assignment as a priest was to plant a church in a remote village where there was no Anglican presence.

Yet this is the move Lind proposes. This becomes plain when one turns to her second grief, namely the use of the Holy Week texts to sanction extreme wickedness. That this has happened too often in the past is beyond denial. That it happens still in too many darkened Christian hearts is all too probable. Shame on the Christian who is not ashamed by this and who fails in view of it to beg God's mercy on the entire Christian family.

Beyond The Da Vinci Code will utilise cathedral premises and draw upon the talents of some of the diocese's leading figures, including the Rt Rev Michael Scott-Joynt, the Bishop of Winchester.

The 11th-century cathedral's decision to celebrate the success of the ecclesiastical thriller will infuriate many Christians who regard its plot, based around a global Christian conspiracy, as heretical and offensive.

Archbishop Hutchison, former Archbishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, had been ready to retire at the time he was elected Primate.

He told the Niagara Falls gathering of bishops that his decision was based primarily on personal and family reasons.