Sentences with phrase «women bishops within»
The event marks almost one year since the historic vote passed legislation to allow women bishops within the Church of Wales.
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The fractures within Protestantism, coupled with other developments such as the move to allow women bishops in the Church of England, however, suggest that the movement toward visible unity is in stasis.
All hopes for any provision within the CofE fade further and further away — the invention of women bishops means that any notion of sacramental assurance is now inevitably confused, and trying to find some sort of safe corner becomes surreal.
Although women are now ordained to all three orders within the Church of England (deacon, priest and bishop), fewer than a quarter of those seeking ordination under the age of 30 are female and fewer than two per cent of leaders of larger Anglican churches are female.
There is growing pressure within the Church of England to create a situation in which the episcopal «team» in each diocese always included both sexes, with women accounting for half of all bishops at any given time.