Clerics reject women bishops bill

icWales:

Senior clerics with the Church in Wales have rejected a controversial Bill which would have allowed women to be ordained as bishops.

The 140-strong Governing Body narrowly rejected the Bill which would have seen the creation of female bishops in the principality for the first time.

A vote saw the Bill defeated by just three after a day of heated debate on the subject.
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Under the governing body’s voting system the Bill needed to attract a minimum two-thirds majority to be passed.

Voting was split into three separate sections, the House of Laity, the House of Clerics and the House of Bishops.

The House of Clerics voted 27 to 18 in favour of the Bill but, with abstentions, missed the required two-thirds majority. The other two houses attained the required minimum.

Read it all here.

Archbishop Barry Morgan made his case for the Bill here.

Posted by John B. Chilton on April 2, 2008 6:48 PM | |
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