Anglican leaders agree to protocol on women bishops
Posted on April 11, 2008
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Australia’s Anglican leaders have taken another step towards women bishops, agreeing on a protocol to deal with the contentious issue.
The move, which came out of this week’s Anglican bishops’ conference in the NSW city of Newcastle, followed last year’s ruling by the church’s peak law body that there were no legal hurdles to women becoming bishops. …
It is expected parishes that disagree with oversight from a female bishop would be able to receive some form of alternative oversight from a male bishop, either in the same region or a neighbouring diocese.
– from The West Australian. (Photo of Archbishop Phillip Aspinall: Diocese of Brisbane.)
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