Vicar's plan to overcome women bishops row

Sunday, 26th April 2009
By Michael Brown

A revolutionary five-point plan to prevent the Church of England splitting when women become bishops has been unveiled by a clergy member of the General Synod.

The blueprint comes from the Rev John Hartley, vicar of St Luke's, Eccleshill, Bradford, who has been an Anglican "MP" since 2004.

At the crux of the 52-year-old ecclesiastical legislator's "solution" to the fear of schism when females don mitres is abolition of the word "bishop". the rest