ABSTRACT
The issue for archiepiscopal leadership is how to engage with interlocutors. The role of episcopacy and primacy – in terms of leadership – is sometimes to challenge or limit the amount of local innovation in order to preserve and promote catholicity. The Five Marks have therefore become a tool for managers in delineating and controlling ‘membership’ and ‘leadership’; and they allow cultures of ecclesial and theological exclusion to flourish, where there was once a thriving culture of inclusion. Eco-leadership respects the character of the body it works with, and any transformation in transitional times through such leadership will only ever be a by-product of the character and multiple intelligences of the leader. Heroic modes of leadership, in contrast, tend to problematize or demonise the state of an institution, requiring followers to reject what they have known and trusted in exchange for something new.
