The third ranking official in the Church of England will visit Bermuda in November to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the oldest Protestant church in continuous use in the Western Hemisphere.Bishop of London the Rt Rev Richard Chartres and Mrs Chartres will be in Bermuda from November 15 to November 18 and will preside over and deliver the sermon at the 400th Anniversary Service at St Peter’s, Their Majesties Chappell on Sunday, November 18.Bishop Chartres will also be the guest speaker at a gala dinner at Rosewood Tuckers Point on November 16.Bishop and Mrs Chartres will also attend a coffee morning at Griffin’s at the St George’s Club on November 17 where Mrs Chartres, the author of ‘Why I am Still an Anglican’ and ‘Married to the Ministry’, will speak.Bishop Chartres will also give the sermon at a service at the Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton that afternoon to inaugurate the Canon Thomas and Mrs Winifred Nisbett lectures in Biblical Studies.“It’s very exciting because he is Number Three in the Church of England and is not only the bishop of the largest diocese in the Church of England, but is also Dean of the Chapels Royal and is close to the Royal Family,” Rector of St Peter’s the Rev David Raths said. “We are very fortunate he is coming here.”The Sunday service will have a slightly different flavour because it will use the Book of Common Prayer, which is no longer used for normal Sunday services.“We will be using silver and the communion table from the 1600s so it seemed appropriate to use the Book of Common Prayer as well,” he said.The visit by Bishop Chatres comes just three years after the Archbishop of York, the Rt Rev John Sentamu, came to Bermuda and preachedat St Peter’s.Both Archbishop Sentamu and Bishop Chartres are thought to be leading contenders to succeed Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury, a decision that is being deliberated on now.Bishop Chartres, who gave the sermon at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton last year, is seen as a conservative member of the Church of England.On two major issues confronting the Anglican Communion, he has not ordained a female priest and has rejected calls for civil partnerships between people of the same sex in churches.