From The London Times-
The first woman bishop in the United Kingdom could soon be appointed after a woman was shortlisted for a vacancy in Scotland.
Canon Alison Peden, 57, who is married with children, is one of three candidates being considered as the new diocesan bishop for Glasgow and Galloway in the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Under Scottish church rules Dr Peden, currently rector of Holy Trinity Church in Stirling and also a college chaplain and canon of St Ninian's cathedral in Perth, is not allowed to comment.
She is up against Dr John Applegate, 53, an academic and the Very Rev Gregor Duncan, 59, Rector of St Ninian’s Church, Pollokshields.
The Scottish Church is the most liberal of the Anglican provinces in the British Isles and is close in sympathies to the US Episcopal Church, where a lesbian, Canon Mary Glasspool, was a few days ago elected as a suffragan in the Los Angeles diocese and is awaiting confirmation from that church's bishops. The US Episcopal Church, in the colonial era a mere outpost of the London diocese, gained independence in the 18th century after the Revolution when the Bishop of London refused to consecrate a new bishop and so he went to Scotland to be consecrated instead.
More here-
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6957067.ece
Story from the Telegraph is here-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6818523/Scottish-mother-may-be-UKs-first-female-bishop.html
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