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Governing Body of the Church in Wales

April and September 2008

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2008

Philip Morris
Philip Morris*
Affiliation:
Archdeacon of Margam
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Extract

In April, a Bill was considered to enable women to be consecrated as bishops. The most crucial amendment for consideration was that ‘the Bench of Bishops will provide pastoral care and support for those who in conscience cannot accept the ordination of women as priests and bishops through the ministry of an Assistant Bishop or Bishops’. The Archbishop resisted the amendment on the grounds that, if it were passed, the Church

would be appointing a male bishop who had doubts about the validity of the orders of a woman bishop. Such a bishop and his followers would have real doubts as to whether the sacraments presided over by her were real sacraments, and real doubts about whether anyone ordained by her, male or female, was actually ordained.

Type
Synod Reports
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 94 - 97
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2008

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