Anglican leaders agree to protocol on women bishops

10th April 2008

Australia’s Anglican leaders have taken another step towards women bishops, agreeing on a protocol to deal with the contentious issue.

The move, which came out of this week’s Anglican bishops’ conference in the NSW city of Newcastle, followed last year’s ruling by the church’s peak law body that there were no legal hurdles to women becoming bishops.

The bishops said in a statement today the Women in the Episcopate protocol, which was adopted at the conference, would help deal with differences of opinion over female bishops.

“The bishops recognised the good faith of those in the church who support the new development of women bishops and of those who find that they cannot do so,” they said in a statement. the rest