Rowan Williams: Agree to differ over women bishops

Mon Feb 16, 2009
By Avril Ormsby

LONDON (Reuters) - Church of England members who disagree on whether women bishops should be ordained must find a way to co-exist because neither group "will go away", the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said on Tuesday.

Some members may join another church, but many wanted to remain and the Anglican Church must find a way to accommodate them, he added.

Speaking at the General Synod meeting in London, the Church's spiritual head said traditionalists and liberals recognised they had to tackle the issue.

"We may have imperfect communion, but we unmistakeably want to find a way of holding on to what we have and 'intensifying' it," he said. the rest