Affirming Catholicism rebukes CoE report on Women Bishops

Affirming Catholicism has written to the General Synod Revision Committee on Women:


...the suggestion that certain functions should be vested in bishops by statute rather than by delegation from the diocesan bishop under a statutory code of practice runs counter to the principle that the diocese is the fundamental unit of the Church.
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We believe that the removal of certain functions by statute from women who are consecrated bishops can carry no other inference than that it is legitimate to deny that they are truly ordained.

Read the entire letter here

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