More parishes reject Church of England bishops who ordain women priests

The number of parishes that have rebelled against the ordination of women has risen by almost a quarter in the last decade in a sign of the growing split between liberals and conservatives within the Church of England.
By Tim Ross, Religious Affairs Editor
28 Oct 2010

For the first time, the Church published figures showing which parishes have formally rejected women priests.

The details come as some traditionalists prepare to quit the Anglican family to take up the Pope’s offer of converting to Roman Catholicism in protest at Church moves to ordain women bishops in England for the first time.

About 1,000 out of 13,000 CofE parishes have formally registered their objection to women priests working in their own churches. the rest