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The feminine touch.(women bishops and the Anglican General Synod)(Brief Article)
Ghasthurst's controversial Bishop Owen Featherhead has announced that he's "fed up" with waiting for the Anglican General Synod to legislate in favour of women bishops and has decided to "go it alone".
"In Ghasthurst Cathedral next Sunday I shall consecrate my dear spouse Enid as co-bishop," he said, adding that it was "out of the question" to wait another four years for the General Synod to resolve the issue of women bishops. "By then Enid and I hope to be in retirement, fulfilling our dream of travelling around Australia by caravan."
Bishop Featherhead, speaking at the opening of his new diocesan headquarters McGillion House, said that the new bishop would have "immediate responsibility for seeing that gender quotas amongst the clergy are made to reflect gender balance in our congregations as a whole." Given ...
- Landmark deal paves way for first women bishops: report.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. December 30, 2008 700+ words
Landmark deal paves way for first women bishops: report London, Dec 30 (PTI) After...landmark deal on the consecration of women bishops, a development that could spark an...of practice on the consecration of women bishops will be debated by the Churchs General...
- Deal on women bishops rejected
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London JONATHAN WYNNE-JONES November 15, 2009 700+ words
...snubbed after a compromise deal over women bishops was rejected. Anglo-Catholics and...people out. However, supporters of women bishops welcomed it as "wonderful news". The issue of women bishops has divided the Church since 2006...
- Parish power could block women bishops; Church promises law to appease...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) October 9, 2009 700+ words
...is risking another damaging row over women bishops. Leaders have promised revised Church...anger liberals who believe it will mean women bishops being denied equal status with male...Church's plans to appoint the first women bishops in 2014. Under the plans, announced...
- Anglican study says women bishops needed.(News)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century December 14, 2004 700+ words
...previously. However, acceptance of women bishops does not follow automatically from...theological arguments both for and against women bishops but makes no formal recommendations...Catholicism for ordaining women." Women bishops have been accepted in principle in...
- Parishes will get power to say no to women bishops.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) October 9, 2009 700+ words
...sparking another damaging row over women bishops. Leaders have promised revised Church...among liberals who believe it will mean women bishops being denied equal status with male...Church's plans to appoint the first women bishops in 2014. Under the plans, announced...
- Church of England inches toward women bishops.(IN THE BEGINNING)
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter February 20, 2009 700+ words
...of introducing legislation to allow women bishops. The legislation, approved by the...of Bishops. The vote to move toward women bishops was 281 to 114, with 13 abstentions...evangelical wings but also from supporters of women bishops like Bishop Stephen Venner of Dover...
- Church of England may allow women bishops despite threats of split.(CENTURY...
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century August 12, 2008 700+ words
...Opening the path toward allowing women bishops was criticized as having negative effects...Anglican Communion, ten provinces allow women bishops, but only four--the Episcopal Church...Anglican step toward consecration of women bishops. "The Church of Norway, having gone...
- Backup Ordination Rejected by Primates; Anglicans Say Recommendation of Panel...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Marjorie Hyer April 29, 1989 700+ words
...challenges from Anglicans who oppose women bishops. Such a step is not "practical or...can avoid schism over the issue of women bishops. Only a few of the 28 regional or...plan would allow parishes that oppose women bishops to opt for a male bishop, from outside...
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