Women Bishops in the Church of England?

Apostolicity ^ | 11/23/2005

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The Department of Dialogue and Unity
of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales

Said this in its response to the Rochester Report

"There is much to be said for the conclusion that the ‘theological logic that made it right for women to be ordained as priests also makes it right for them to be ordained as bishops’ (4.3.10). If the Church of England had made an irrevocable decision to ordain women as priests, there is an inescapable logic about the eventual ordination of women as bishops. The Church of England, however, talks of an ‘open process of reception’ for considering the rightness or otherwise of the decision to ordain women as priests, a process of discernment by which this development ‘could be either accepted or rejected’ (3.6.10). This process is one which ‘will continue until not just the Church of England but the “whole Church” comes to a common mind about the matter’ (3.6.16). Alongside the remaining impasse in the Church of England on the ordination of women as priests, the continuing process of reception of this development which is ‘hypothetically reversible’ (3.6.24) at very least raises serious questions about the timing of a decision to ordain women as bishops."

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