Women bishops: breaking of promises
Published Date:
17 July 2008
By Staff Copy
I find it quite amazing that, of all the clergy in Scarborough and the surrounding district, you find it necessary to elicit comments from a pair of Methodist Ministers about the decision of the General Synod of the Church of England to approve of the consecration of women bishops (July 9).
Not only does the Methodist Church not have any bishops, but their comments were ill-informed and inaccurate.
The disquiet among traditionalists like myself has nothing to do with women being treated as second class citizens, they never were and they never will be, but everything to do with the breaking of promises made when women were, by the narrowest of majorities in the General Synod, allowed to be ordained as priests.
Even if women are consecrated as bishops, and that is by no means a foregone conclusion, it cannot happen before 2014, at the very soonest.
Fr Allan Campbell-Wilson
Vicar of Cayton with Eastfield
The Vicarage
Cayton
The full article contains 165 words and appears in Scarborough Evening News newspaper.
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Last Updated:
15 July 2008 2:43 PM
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Source:
Scarborough Evening News
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Location:
Scarborough
