and subsequently to a further theological canonry (Bursalis Prebendary) in 2006. He was examining chaplain and Diocesan Adviser on New Age Religions to the Bishop of Chichester. In 1998 he was a Church of England delegate to the 8th Council of the World Council of Churches held in Harare, Zimbabwe. He was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England for from 1995 to 2012. He has lectured in the United States, most recently as a visiting theologian for the Lutheran Church in Oregon. In 2012 he took early retirement from his university post and from 2012 to 2016 was 'house for duty' incumbent as vicar of St Martin de Gouray in Gorey, Jersey. He was vice-chairman of the Keston Institute during the 1980s, and a director of Aid to Russian Christians, in which role he engaged in smuggling Bibles and medicine to the "Underground Church" in the Soviet Union during that decade. He was a member of the Society of the Holy Cross, and the Little Brothers of Jesus. In 2016, Ashenden was appointed to the board of reference for the Global Anglican Future Conference He also joined Anglican TV Ministries as their UK correspondent. Resignation from Church of England positions In early 2017, Ashenden resigned from his position as Chaplain to the Queen after writing in The Times criticising a service at St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, at which a Muslim student has been invited to read (in Arabic) a passage from the Koran that explicitly declared that Jesus is not the Son of God and because of his views on Islam and orthodox Christianity. Ashenden concluded that being a member of the Ecclesiastical Household was incompatible with being free to comment on issues of freedom of speech and the integrity of Christianity in the public square. One of the consequences of his resignation was a variety of media engagements in several countries, including Fox News in the United States, The Bolt Report in Australia,. On 17 March 2017, Ashenden lodged a deed in the High Court of London under the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870, to relinquish his orders within the Church of England. Christian Episcopal Church In September 2017 Archbishop Theodore Casimes of the Christian Episcopal Church announced that Ashenden had been consecrated as a missionary bishop for the United Kingdom and Europe. Ashenden resigned from the Christian Episcopal Church in December 2019 on becoming