From The Church Times-THE membership of a working group given the task of helping the House of Bishops to resolve the deadlock on women bishops was announced on Wednesday. Two of its ten members - the Bishop of Chichester, Dr Martin Warner, and the Chair of the House of Laity, Dr Philip Giddings - voted against the legislation at the Synod last month ( News, 23 November).
The group, which is drawn from all three Houses of the Synod, is expected to have two initial meetings in January, a Church House statement said. It will "arrange facilitated discussions in February with a wide range of people with a variety of views", and will "assist the House [of Bishops] when it meets in February and in May to come to a decision on the new package of proposals it intends to bring to the Synod in July".
The working group's members are: the Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, the Rt Revd Nigel Stock (chair); the Bishop of Coventry, Dr Christopher Cocksworth; the Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Revd James Langstaff; the Bishop of Chichester, Dr Martin Warner; the Dean of York, the Very Revd Vivienne Faull; the Archdeacon of Lewisham & Greenwich, the Ven. Christine Hardman; the Revd Dr Rosemarie Mallett (Southwark); Dr Philip Giddings (Oxford); Dr Paula Gooder (Birmingham); and Margaret Swinson (Liverpool).
The House of Bishops met at Lambeth Palace on Monday and Tuesday of last week ( News, 14 December). After the meeting, the Bishops said that new legislative proposals would 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".
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http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/21-december/news/uk/synod-taskforce-announcedv
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