A bishop’s public appeal to King Charles to stand up for Britain’s Christian identity has attracted more than two million views on X and gathered over 3,500 signatures of support, after the letter was posted on social media and quickly spread across the platform.
Bishop Ceirion H Dewar FSHC addressed the open letter directly to the monarch, urging him to use the authority of the Crown to defend what the bishop described as a faith that had shaped the foundations of the nation. The post received 56,000 likes and prompted widespread discussion online within days of being published.
The letter sets out the bishop’s concern that Christianity is being systematically marginalised in public life. He wrote that Christian belief was being “mocked in the public square,” that Christian morality was being dismissed as intolerance, and that Christian institutions were being pressured to abandon their doctrine to conform to contemporary ideological expectations. “I cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled,” he stated.
Central to his appeal is a direct challenge to the King to act on his constitutional title of Defender of the Faith. Bishop Dewar told the monarch that Britain “now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced,” and presented what he framed as a binary choice. “You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity,” he wrote. “Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours.”
The bishop warned that the consequences of inaction would be irreversible. “If Christianity is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it,” he wrote, closing with a call for the King to fulfil what he described as a “sacred duty of stewardship” entrusted to the Crown.
The letter reflects a broader sense of unease among some Christian voices in Britain about the direction of public policy and cultural attitudes toward faith. Whether the Palace will formally respond to the letter remains to be seen. GB News has contacted Buckingham Palace for comment.
