From The Church Times-NEW legislation to enable women to become bishops will be presented to the General Synod in July, the House of Bishops announced on Tuesday, after a two-day meeting at Lambeth Palace.
The Archbishops will set up a working group, drawn from all three Houses of Synod, its membership to be announced before Christmas. This group will arrange "facilitated discussion with a wide range of people with a variety of views" in the week of 4 February, when the General Synod was to have met.
Immediately after these discussions, the House of Bishops will meet and the elements of a new legislative package are expected to be decided at its meeting in May, in readiness for the July sessions.
The Bishops reckon that, "for such proposals to command assent", they will need to offer "greater simplicity", but also a "clear embodiment of the principle articulated by the 1998 Lambeth Conference that those who dissent from, as well as those who assent to, the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate are both loyal Anglicans". There was also a need for a "broadly based measure of agreement about the shape of the legislation in advance of the beginning of the actual legislative process".
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http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/14-december/news/uk/house-of-bishops-to-revive-hopes-for-women-bishops
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