Welsh women Bill ‘gives bishops a blank cheque’
by Pat Ashworth
30 November, 2007

ONE HUNDRED CLERICS and ordinands in the Church in Wales have expressed their “concern and dismay” at the wording of the Bill to allow women to join the episcopate.

Women were first ordained as priests in the Church in Wales in 1997. Those who cannot in conscience accept their ministry have had recourse to a Provincial Assistant Bishop, the Rt Revd David Thomas.

The problem is that the new Bill, published in July, contains no equivalent provision, say the protesting clerics, led by the Revd Alan Rabjohns, Vicar of St Saviour’s, Roath, in Cardiff. They express their objections in a letter to the Church Times this week. the rest

Clergy warning on women bishops

Letter