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Women Bishops and the Recognition of Orders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2014

Will Adam
Will Adam*
Affiliation:
Vicar of St Paul's, Winchmore Hill, London
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The autumn of 2013 saw two landmark decisions in the Anglican churches of the British Isles. On 12 September 2013 the Governing Body of the Church in Wales voted in favour of legislation to permit the ordination of women as bishops. On 20 September 2013 it was announced that on the previous day the Revd Patricia Storey had been elected as Bishop of Meath and Kildare. She was duly consecrated on 30 November 2013 and enthroned in her two cathedrals in early December. The Scottish Episcopal Church permits the ordination of women to the episcopate, but to date none has been elected to an episcopal see.

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Women BishopsAnglicanOverseas Clergy Measure
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 2014 , pp. 187 - 190
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2014 

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References

2 The statement was printed in an early issue of this Journal in Hanson, B, ‘Recent legislative developments’, (1989) 1:5Ecc LJ 8–11Google Scholar at 9–11.

3 Eg the late Canon Susan Cole-King, ordained priest in the USA in 1987 and ‘Deacon in Charge’ of Drayton in the Diocese of Oxford from 1992 to 1994 before becoming Priest in Charge in 1994.

4 Legal Opinions Concerning the Church of England (eighth edition, London, 2007), pp 71–84Google Scholar, available online at <http://www.sarmiento.plus.com/cofe/womenbishopslegalopinion.html>, accessed 1 October 2013.

5 Episcopal Church (Scotland) Act 1864, s 5.

6 Eg Canon C 10.2A prevents the bishop admitting or instituting a woman priest to a parish or benefice with such a resolution in place.

7 Saving the provision relating to Scottish clergy in the Episcopal Church (Scotland) Act 1864 noted above.