From The Church Times-CAMPAIGNERS for women bishops cautiously welcomed the amendment made to the draft legislation by the House of Bishops on Wednesday of last week. Traditionalist and conservative Evangelical groups expressed concern about the amendment.
The "Appleby amendment" was suggested by the Revd Janet Appleby, a Team Vicar in the Willington Team Ministry, and Vicar and Minister in the Church of the Good Shepherd Local Ecumenical Project in Wallsend, Tyne & Wear; and it won "overwhelming support" from the House of Bishops, the Archbishop of Canterbury said on Wednesday. The House welcomed "the simplicity of the new text, its emphasis on respect, and the process of dialogue with parishes that it will promote".
The wording states that the Code of Practice attached to the Measure should cover "the selection of male bishops and male priests in a manner which respects the grounds on which Parochial Church Councils issue Letters of Request under section 3". Letters of Request are the means whereby a parish could ask for a male priest or for episcopal oversight by someone other than the diocesan bishop.
More here-
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/21-september/news/uk/amended-women-bishops-clause-speaks-of-‘respect’
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