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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Nov 18, 2014, 12:03 AM Nov 2014

Church of England formally approves women bishops

Trevor Grundy

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Twenty years after women were ordained as priests, the Church of England is set to appoint its first woman bishop by year’s end or at the start of 2015.

On Monday (Nov. 17), the church’s two most senior leaders, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York John Sentamu, signed the change into church, or canon, law after asking the General Synod, made up of bishops, clergy and laity, to signal their approval by a show of hands.

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/11/17/church-england-formally-approves-women-bishops/

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