Posted on 04/28/2019 5:49:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
An internal Church of England report has revealed that 500 of its churches are operating a male-only policy for priests, five years after it had agreed to the ordination of female bishops.
Individual churches are permitted to request male incumbents on theological grounds under a 2014 agreement, the Five Guiding Principles, that was intended to avert a breakaway by conservative evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics.
[…] This weekend there are signs that the compromise is fraying in Wales as well as in England. On Thursday the Church in Wales will consider whether to stop ordaining those who refuse to accept female priests.
It will consider a motion from Peggy Jackson, archdeacon of Llandaff, not to hold separate ordination services for any candidates and to “cease to ordain those who [refuse] the sacramental ministry of women”.
The Church Society, the leading conservative evangelical group, said that in England the “credibility and fairness” of the compromise had been “sorely tested”. The Rev Lee Gatiss, its director, said: “Events in the Church in Wales show that extremist voices can quickly undermine the credibility of such tolerance when they gain the upper hand and wish to impose their novel cultural agenda on everyone else.
“It is our prayer that the Church of England will avoid that kind of provocative imposition. Though we have lots of women bishops now, there isn’t a single conservative evangelical diocesan bishop and no ordinary suffragans who act in accordance with the traditional view.” The July meeting of the General Synod will consider whether the compromise is working.
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500 CoE still follow the Biblical injunction against women priests.
I timothy 3:1- if a man desires the office of a bishop.
I’m not sure why, but I have yet to have a positive experience with a female pastor. They’re either rabid, angry, lesbians or they come across like kindergarten teachers telling a story to the class.
Yup, should be all of them. C of E is pretty messed up in general though. I am surprised they actually can ban them.
Do convents admit male nuns yet?
There’s is no coexistence with progressives. Once they get a camel’s nose through the tent flap the rest will follow.
The ordination of women was the beginning of the end of the Episcopal Church USA and will be the root cause of the rest of the Anglican Communion worldwide separating itself from the Church of England, where it began.
Many churches will go by the wayside and many parishioners will become Catholics or Orthodox or? Although I’m convinced the orthodox churches are the final solidly grounded Christian churches because the Catholic Church seems like it will soon be following on the footsteps of the Church of England. Practicing gay priests are everywhere in both churches already.
Women have no place in ministry and should keeps heads covered and mouths shut according to First Corinthians 14:33–35 . I am tired of people ignoring the WORD OF GOD!!
Will Eve ever learn
Bump
What was that quote about when orthodoxy is made optional, it will eventually be outlawed? Just give’m time...
The Catholics don’t allow females to be priests but revere Mary. While Protestants mock Catholics about Mary but allow women to be preachers.
Every formerly orthodox church that’s gone off the rails started by ordaining women pastors.
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