Fallout from Women Bishops Ruling
Natasha Percy
19 October 2007

As General Synod approaches, Sydney’s Standing Committee has made clear its “disappointment” with the majority opinion of the Appellate Tribunal on women bishops.

The “disappointment” concerns the Tribunal’s September 28 decision that there is nothing in the wording of the current Constitution which would prevent women becoming bishops.

This was a legal interpretation of a 1995 amendment to the definition of ‘canonical fitness’ originally given in the 1961 Constitution of the Anglican Church of Australia.

The original wording held that ‘maleness’ was a prerequisite for bishops in the Australian Anglican Church. the rest (h/t Anglicans Ablaze)