General Synod Gives Anglican Trads in England No Option on Female Bishops

Tuesday July 13, 2010
By Peter J. Smith
YORK, England

(LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the best efforts of the leading shepherds of the Church of England (CoE), hard-line liberals at this weekend’s General Synod in York refused to brook any compromise on the issue of women bishops – a decision that may prove to be the straw that breaks the back of the CoE.

Desperate to avoid a schism that would rend the CoE asunder and send further shock waves through the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury and Archbishop John Sentamu of York proposed a measure at the synod that would have exempted traditional Anglicans from oversight by female bishops. However, after two hours of debate, the liberal faction of the General Synod defeated the amendment offered by the pair to the forthcoming draft document on women bishops. the rest

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