Former atheist Miranda Threlfall-Holmes leads candidates to be female bishop

Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent
The Times
July 9, 2008

Women priests who might become bishops include London vicar Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Southwark's Christine Hardman, Dean of Leicester Vivienne Faull, Dean of Salisbury June Osborne, Westminster Abbey's Canon Jane Hedges and St Paul's Canon Lucy Winkett.

But high up the list of potential candidates among the 1,500-plus stipendiary women priests is the slim, auburn-haired Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, a mother of two children in her mid-thirties.

Former atheist Dr Threlfall-Holmes, whose motion for a simple measure to consecrate women without even a code of practice for traditionalists was defeated by the General Synod, was at a girls' grammar school in 1992 when the General Synod voted to ordain women priests. the rest