Bishop of Rochester Questions Prince of Wales as Defender of Faith

One of the Anglican Church’s senior figures, the Bishop of Rochester, has come out to question the Prince of Wales’ expressed desire to be the defender of all faiths, as opposed to just Christianity.

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, a convert from Islam, said that the differences between faiths made it impossible to defend all of them, reports The Press Association.

The Prince of Wales first expressed the desire to become a “Defender of Faith” as opposed to a “Defender of the Faith” in a 1994 interview in which he suggested that the title held by all British monarchs since Henry VIII implied that they would protect only Christians.